Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
Pierre Corneille
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Pierre Corneille
Age: 78 †
Born: 1606
Born: June 6
Died: 1684
Died: October 1
Dramatist
Playwright
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Translator
Writer
Applied
Remedy
Patient
Loves
Allow
Disease
Unwilling
More quotes by Pierre Corneille
Omnipotence is bought with ceaseless fear.
Pierre Corneille
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
Pierre Corneille
In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
Pierre Corneille
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Pierre Corneille
When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.
Pierre Corneille
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Pierre Corneille
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
Pierre Corneille
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
Pierre Corneille
I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.
Pierre Corneille
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
Pierre Corneille
I am young, it is true but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.
Pierre Corneille
Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
Pierre Corneille
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
Pierre Corneille
He who despises life is his life's master.
Pierre Corneille
Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
Pierre Corneille
Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
Pierre Corneille
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.
Pierre Corneille
Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.
Pierre Corneille
I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love.
Pierre Corneille
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
Pierre Corneille
