216 Quotes by Pierre Corneille

Brave men are brave from the very first.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

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.

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

All great virtues become great men.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.