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
animal elephants people
If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.
christian heaven stronger
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that the heavens owe them some recognition: that they arise the stronger the more they are beaten down is hardly the result of common virtues.
men virtue great-men
All great virtues become great men.
kings believe justice
I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.
miracle heaven silence
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
kings rome democracy
The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.
overcoming triumph obstinacy
How much must I overcome before I triumph?
rome exile
Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
risk fruit greater
The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.
power command please
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
honor wish
Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
want combat contention
And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
conquer resolution resolve
Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
obedience profession hard
Obedience is a hard profession.