Pierre Corneille quotes
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“The greater the effort, the greater the glory.”
-- Pierre CorneilleSource : "Character: Pauline". "Polyeucte" by Pierre Corneille, act IV, scene v, 1642.
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“Self-love is the source of all our other loves.”
-- Pierre CorneilleSource : "Titus and Berenice". Play by Pierre Corneille, 1670.
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“When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.”
-- Pierre CorneilleSource : 'Le Cid' (1637) act 2, sc. 2
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“A liar is always lavish of oaths.”
-- Pierre CorneilleSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Le Menteur, III. 5, p. 485-87, 1922.
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“The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.”
-- Pierre CorneilleSource : "The Liar". Play by Pierre Corneille, 1643.
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“To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.”
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“It matters more how one gives than what one gives”
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“Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.”
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“Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.”
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“Brave men are brave from the very first.”
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“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
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“I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.”
-- Pierre CorneilleSource : "Le Cid". Tragicomedy by Pierre Corneille (Act II, Scene I), December 1636.
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“I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.”
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“Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!”
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“The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.”
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“It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.”
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“Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?”
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“As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings.”
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“If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?”
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“Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.”
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“One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.”
-- Pierre Corneille
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