All evils are equal when they are extreme.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Evil
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Revenge
The man who pardons easily, courts injury.
—Pierre Corneille
The secret of giving affectionately is great and rare; it requires address to do it well; otherwise we lose instead of deriving benefit from it.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Gifts
A victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Victory, Danger
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Giving, One liners, Charity, Gifts
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Power
Happiness seems made to be shared.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Happiness
Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Forgiveness
When heaven half opens its arms, he who is faint-hearted deserves not anything. It is this want of faith that often keeps heaven from bestowing its blessings; and even when they come down, it is apt to send them away.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Opportunity
One often calms one’s grief by recounting it.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Grief, Grieving
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Punishment
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Promises
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Danger
He on whom Heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Kings
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Confidence, Danger
A first impulse was never a crime.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Crime
A liar is full of oaths.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Deception/Lying, Lies, Lying
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Time Management
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Honor
To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Danger
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
—Pierre Corneille
Justice advances with such languid steps that crime often escapes from its slowness. Its tardy and doubtful course causes many tears to be shed.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Justice
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Weakness
Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Courage
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Shame
Brave men are brave from the very first.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Brave
Peace is produced by war.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Peace
Every man of courage is a man of his word.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Courage
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
—Pierre Corneille
Topics: Reality, Opportunities, Ambition
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