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
disease loves patient remedy unwilling
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is tallow a remedy to be applied.
love love-is tyrants
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
love hate fire
It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.
love revenge hate
If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?
love love-you religion
I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.
love love-you innocence
I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love.
love men virtue
Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.
love hope flames
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
life-and-love revenge hatred
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
love-is self romance
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
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.