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
ambition has-beens sated
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
revenge punishment doe
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
ambition summit
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
kindness violence vain
Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
fire slumber ashes
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
men every-man
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
woe
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
kings
I would not like a king who could obey.
believe i-believe knows
I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.
sweet heart reign
Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.
gratitude grateful sadness
Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.
ambition aspire
Ambition aspires to descend
fame
To myself alone do I owe my fame.
sweetest loses
My sweetest hope is to lose hope