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
shame crime
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
firsts crime impulse
A first impulse was never a crime.
powerful crime enough
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
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.
almost beyond gives heavy offense service weighs
A service beyond all recompense - Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense
gods
Do your duty, and let the gods do the rest.
leave outcome
Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.
battle ended lack
And the battle ended through lack of combatants.
disease loves patient remedy unwilling
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is tallow a remedy to be applied.
conquer danger triumph
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
relieve speaking
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
fate soul age
He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.
enemy weakness knows
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.