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
conquer danger triumph
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
conquer danger
To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
learning triumph conquer
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
despair noble conquer
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.
conquer resolution resolve
Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
endurance conquer all-things
Patience and time conquer all things.
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.
enemy weakness knows
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
disease loves patient remedy unwilling
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is tallow a remedy to be applied.
gods
Do your duty, and let the gods do the rest.
leave outcome
Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.
battle ended lack
And the battle ended through lack of combatants.
almost beyond gives heavy offense service weighs
A service beyond all recompense - Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense
await born nobly passing souls valor
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.