A biography for Pierre Corneillehasn’t been written yet.
“האהבה אינה אלא הנאה, והכבוד הוא חובה.”
“אם האהבה חיה מן התקוה היא מתה אתה.”
“לעולם אין אנו טועמים טעמה של שמחה מושלמת, והצלחותינו הגדולות ביותר כרוכות בעצב.”
“למי שמתנקם באביו דבר אינו לא אפשרי.”
“I would not like a king who could obey.”
“When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.”
“He who forgives readily only invites offense.”
“A liar is always lavish of oaths.”
“Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.”
“Brave men are brave from the very first.”
“Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.”
“Those who easily forgive invite offenses.”
“Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.”
“To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.”
“In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.”
“My sweetest hope is to lose hope.”
“Just vengeance does not call for punishment.”
“After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.”
“The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.”
“Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!”