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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
Playwright | French
Born: 1606-06-06 in Rouen, France
Died: October 1, 1684 in Paris, France
Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
Pierre Corneille
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
Pierre Corneille
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
Pierre Corneille
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Pierre Corneille
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
Pierre Corneille
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
Pierre Corneille
Happiness seems made to be shared.
Pierre Corneille
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Pierre Corneille
My sweetest hope is to lose hope.
Pierre Corneille
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille
Peace is produced by war.
Pierre Corneille
A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
Pierre Corneille
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Pierre Corneille
We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Pierre Corneille
Peace is produced by war.
Pierre Corneille