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
await born nobly passing souls valor
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
years soul passing
For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years
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.
conquer danger triumph
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
conquer danger
To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
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
relieve speaking
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
master universe wish
I am master of myself, as of the Universe; I am, and I wish to be so.
father impossible nothing-is-impossible
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible