Quote

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

Pierre Corneille

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Pierre Corneille
Age: 78 †
Born: 1606
Born: June 6
Died: 1684
Died: October 1
Dramatist
Playwright
Poet
Poet Lawyer
Translator
Writer
Powerful
Fear
Everything

More quotes by Pierre Corneille

Image
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
Pierre Corneille
Image
My sweetest hope is to lose hope
Pierre Corneille
Image
Peace is produced by war.
Pierre Corneille
Image
It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.
Pierre Corneille
Image
Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
Pierre Corneille
Image
It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
Pierre Corneille
Image
The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.
Pierre Corneille
Image
Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
Pierre Corneille
Image
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible
Pierre Corneille
Image
Obedience is a hard profession.
Pierre Corneille
Image
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Pierre Corneille
Image
A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
Pierre Corneille
Image
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
Pierre Corneille
Image
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
Pierre Corneille
Image
There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained
Pierre Corneille
Image
Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
Pierre Corneille
Image
Brave men are brave from the very first.
Pierre Corneille
Image
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
Pierre Corneille
Image
One is often guilty by being too just.
Pierre Corneille
Image
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Pierre Corneille