What did Pierre Corneille mean by: A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.] - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France Copy
+ A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Father, Husband, Kings, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Fire, Hate, Love, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Pleasure, Ruling, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Ashes, Fire, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Brave, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Innocence, Love, Love You, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Kings, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Glory, Power, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it. Explain - Frederick Lenz Philosopher · USA
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
