Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneillewas a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Jean Racine...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth6 June 1606
CountryFrance
rome me-alone
Rome alone can resist Rome.
fame
To myself alone do I owe my fame.
ambition aspire
Ambition aspires to descend
gratitude grateful sadness
Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.
liars lying oath
A liar is full of oaths.
meant-to-be
Happiness is meant to be shared.
punishment crime disgrace
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
glory virtue crime
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
enemy weakness knows
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
fate soul age
He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.
kings war flames
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.
feels misfortunes
In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.
power omnipotence
Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.
memories lying good-memories
It takes good memory to keep up a lie