Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. Pierre Corneille More Quotes by Pierre Corneille More Quotes From Pierre Corneille One is often guilty by being too just. Pierre Corneille guilty Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives. Pierre Corneille occasions know-how knows If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate? Pierre Corneille hate revenge love Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage. Pierre Corneille renounce glory fortune Love is a tyrant sparing none. Pierre Corneille tyrants love-is love I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. Pierre Corneille doom agree agreement A liar is full of oaths. Pierre Corneille oath liars lying Peace is produced by war. Pierre Corneille war peace As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true. Pierre Corneille polytheism god religion Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! Pierre Corneille despair birthday enemy He who allows me to rule is in fact my master Pierre Corneille masters facts Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. Pierre Corneille tyrants noble tyranny To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred. Pierre Corneille life-and-love hatred revenge Your virtue raises your glory above your crime. Pierre Corneille crime virtue glory He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be. Pierre Corneille insulted-him insolence deserve He who despises life is his life's master. Pierre Corneille stoicism masters life-is Have others fear you, and I will have no fear. Pierre Corneille no-fear power fear The worst of all States is the democratic State. Pierre Corneille despotism democracy states Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us! Pierre Corneille fate sweet enemy 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 lasts ambition fall
