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
fear powerful should
Who is all-powerful should fear everything.
powerful crime enough
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
fear power no-fear
Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.
power command please
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
kings power desire
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
power wish masters
I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.
power world glory
Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.
power risk want
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
power omnipotence
Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.
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.