Pierre Corneille Quotes

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

To die for ones country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

One often calms ones grief by recounting it.

We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

“I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.”

Quotes by Pierre Corneille