A first impulse was never a crime.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

A good memory is needed after one has lied.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

A liar is always lavish of oaths.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

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

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Ambition aspires to descend.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

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

Brave men are brave from the very first.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

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

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Each instant of life is a step toward death.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Every man of courage is a man of his word.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Happiness seems made to be shared.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

He who fears not death fears not a threat.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

He who forgives readily only invites offense.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

He who pardons easily invites offense.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

How delicious is pleasure after torment!
- Pierre Corneille Quote

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

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

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

I would not like a king who could obey.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Love is a tyrant sparing none.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
- Pierre Corneille Quote

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

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

One is often guilty by being too just.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Peace is produced by war.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Reason and love are sworn enemies.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

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

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

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

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

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

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

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

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

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

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
- Pierre Corneille Quote

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
- Pierre Corneille Quote