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
kings
I would not like a king who could obey.
kings men may
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
kings husband father
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
kings advice choices
It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
kings believe justice
I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.
kings rome democracy
The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.
kings heaven weight
He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
kings power desire
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
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.
await born nobly passing souls valor
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
conquer danger
To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
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.