Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneillewas a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Jean Racine...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth6 June 1606
CountryFrance
death lying people
The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.
gratitude wish ingratitude
One doesn't wish to see those to whom one owes so much.
power risk want
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
democracy states despotism
The worst of all States is the democratic State.
heaven grace divinity
It is the gift of heaven and not of reason.
liars lying oath
A liar is full of oaths.
glory virtue crime
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
punishment crime disgrace
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
kings war flames
Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.
rome me-alone
Rome alone can resist Rome.
feels misfortunes
In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.
meant-to-be
Happiness is meant to be shared.
men one-man preserves
What destroys one man preserves another.
facts masters
He who allows me to rule is in fact my master