What did Pierre Corneille mean by: All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.] - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France Copy
+ I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Consent, Honor, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ Ambition displeases when it has been sated … having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Ambitious, Aspire, 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
+ If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Animal, Elephants, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Heaven, Pay, Wicked, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Power, Risk, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Disease, Patience, Remedy, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
