Pierre Corneille Quotes - Page 2

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Guess if you can, choose if you dare.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

One is often guilty by being too just.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?

A liar is full of oaths.

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

Obedience is a hard profession.

When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.]

Happiness seems made to be shared.