Quotes by Corneille, Pierre

"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven."

Corneille, Pierre on duty   

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"All evils are equal when they are extreme."

Corneille, Pierre on evil   

"Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not."

Corneille, Pierre on force   

"Those who easily forgive invite offenses."

Corneille, Pierre on forgiveness
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"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."

Corneille, Pierre on giving   

"One often calms one's grief by recounting it."

Corneille, Pierre on grief
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"Happiness seems made to be shared."

Corneille, Pierre on happiness   

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

Corneille, Pierre on honor   

"A liar is full of oaths."

Corneille, Pierre on lies and lying
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"Love is a tyrant sparing none."

Corneille, Pierre on love   

"Peace is produced by war."

Corneille, Pierre on peace
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"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."

Corneille, Pierre on perfection
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"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."

Corneille, Pierre on punishment   

"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."

Corneille, Pierre on revenge   

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."

Corneille, Pierre on risk
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"A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory."

Corneille, Pierre on victory
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"Danger breeds best on too much confidence."

Corneille, Pierre on confidence
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"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."

Corneille, Pierre on anger
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"To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory."

Corneille, Pierre on anger