“He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Shame
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“Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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“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.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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“Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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“She has too many virtues to not be Christian.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“Its fury aims to shatter but our altars: it scorns only the gods and never the mortals.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“The fate of the State decides theirs: clauses of treaties determine their affections.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Marriage
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“Oh! how many actions, how many fabulous exploits remain without glory in the midst of the night.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“The combat ended for want of combatants.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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“Do your duty, and let the gods do the rest.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Destiny
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“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.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: History
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“The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“Death was to be my glory, but destiny has refused it.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“Each instant of life is a step toward death.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“How sweet to die after one’s enemies.”
Pierre Corneille
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
