What did Pierre Corneille mean by: Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day. - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France Copy
+ A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu’on a menti.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Lied, Lying, Memories, 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
+ The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Desire, Kings, Power, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right? Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Truth, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Democracy, Kings, Rome, 0 - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Liars, Lying, Oath, 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
There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power. - Gary D. Schmidt Author
No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.] - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this. - Michelangelo Artist · Italy
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. - Walter Darby Bannard Painter · USA
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
Power … is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end. - Jeane Kirkpatrick Political scientist and diplomat
No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man. - William Lloyd Garrison Abolitionist · USA
