Pierre Corneille Quotes

Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.

Birth: June 06, 1606 - Death: October 01, 1684

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

I would not like a king who could obey.

Topic(s): Kings

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

Topic(s): Want , Littles , Sometimes

It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.

Topic(s): Hard , Love , Hate

I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.

Topic(s): Believe , I Believe , Justice

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

Topic(s): Obedience , Rebellion , Revolt

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

Topic(s): Wells , Great Men , Managers

Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.

Topic(s): Knows , Know How , Manage

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

Topic(s): Religion , God , Being True

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

Topic(s): Pleasure , Generous , Ruling

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

Topic(s):

My reason, it’s true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn’t rule them so much as tyrannize them.

Topic(s): Reason , Feelings , Authority

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