Quotes from Pierre Corneille
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Pierre Corneille
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
- Pierre Corneille
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
- Pierre Corneille
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
- Pierre Corneille
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
- Pierre Corneille
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
- Pierre Corneille
He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.
- Pierre Corneille
A first impulse was never a crime.
- Pierre Corneille
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.
- Pierre Corneille
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
- Pierre Corneille
I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.
- Pierre Corneille
It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.
- Pierre Corneille