216 Quotes by Pierre Corneille

To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

One doesn’t wish to see those to whom one owes so much.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

He who despises life is his life’s master.

For souls nobly born, valor doesn’t await the passing of years.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

How sweet to die after one’s enemies.

My reason, it’s true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn’t rule them so much as tyrannize them.

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.