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Pierre Corneille
French
June 6, 1606
Dramatist
Ambition aspires to descend.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Ambition
Descend
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Noble
Tyranny
Treachery
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Just
Does
Call
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Where
Force
Legitimate
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
You
Guess
Choose
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Without
Win
Risk
He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Who
He
Longer
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Much
Neither
Honor
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Who
He
Nothing
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Death
Life
Each
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Enough
Against
State
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
World
Which
True
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Your
Take
Either
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Death
Country
Beautiful
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Who
How
Us
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Pierre Corneille
Tags:
Them
Much
True
