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Pierre Corneille Quotes About Happiness

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

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I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

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We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

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Pierre Corneille Quotes About Love

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

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Reason and love are sworn enemies.

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

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More Quotes by Pierre Corneille

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

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To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

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A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

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When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

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My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

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I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

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As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

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Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

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To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

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After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

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True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

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Every man of courage is a man of his word.

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When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

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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.

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It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

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He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

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Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

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Each instant of life is a step toward death.

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

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Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

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Brave men are brave from the very first.

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To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

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The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

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They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

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Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

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Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

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When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

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He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

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I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

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He who fears not death fears not a threat.

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One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

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To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

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Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

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The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

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He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

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In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

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He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.

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It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

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The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

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This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

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