Twahirwa Corneille Quotes

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years. ~ Pierre Corneille

Reason and love are sworn enemies. ~ Pierre Corneille

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven. ~ Pierre Corneille

If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate? ~ Pierre Corneille

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. ~ Pierre Corneille

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen. ~ Pierre Corneille

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. ~ Pierre Corneille

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one. ~ Pierre Corneille

Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that the heavens owe them some recognition: that they arise the stronger the more they are beaten down is hardly the result of common virtues. ~ Pierre Corneille

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age. ~ Pierre Corneille

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid the bleaching bones of the dead: for four hundred years the sharks followed the scurrying ships; for four hundred years America was strewn with the living and dying millions of a transplanted race; for four hundred years Ethiopia stretched forth her hands unto God. ~ W.E.B. Du Bois

Obedience is a hard profession. ~ Pierre Corneille

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. ~ Pierre Corneille

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them. ~ Pierre Corneille

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
~ Pierre Corneille

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest. ~ Samuel Johnson

Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it. ~ Pierre Corneille

He who is hated by all can not expect to live long. ~ Pierre Corneille

Each instant of life is a step toward death. ~ Pierre Corneille

It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame. ~ Pierre Corneille

The fire which seems out often sleeps beneath the cinders. ~ Pierre Corneille

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. ~ Pierre Corneille

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity. ~ Pierre Corneille

A liar is full of oaths. ~ Pierre Corneille

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. ~ Pierre Corneille

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

The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest survival. Working with these wonderful people has been incredibly valuable. ~ Corneille Ewango

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. ~ Pierre Corneille

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. ~ Pierre Corneille

He who despises life is his life's master. ~ Pierre Corneille

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. ~ Pierre Corneille

It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us. ~ Pierre Corneille

Guess if you can, choose if you dare. ~ Pierre Corneille

What destroys one man preserves another. ~ Pierre Corneille

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic. ~ Pierre Corneille

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

Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us. ~ Pierre Corneille

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty. ~ Pierre Corneille

He who fears not death fears not a threat. ~ Pierre Corneille

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible. ~ Pierre Corneille

Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend. ~ Pierre Corneille

Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am. ~ Pierre Corneille

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. ~ Pierre Corneille