Quotes from Pierre Corneille
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
- Pierre Corneille
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
- Pierre Corneille
Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.
- Pierre Corneille
Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.
- Pierre Corneille
Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
- Pierre Corneille
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
- Pierre Corneille
Ambition aspires to descend.
- Pierre Corneille
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
- Pierre Corneille
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
- Pierre Corneille
He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
- Pierre Corneille
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
- Pierre Corneille
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
- Pierre Corneille