What did Pierre Corneille mean by: He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it. - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France Copy
+ 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
+ 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
+ Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Happiness, 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
+ It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Advice, Choices, Kings, 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
+ Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Heaven, Thrones, 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
There’s no dew left on the daisies and clover; there’s no rain left in heaven. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face? - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest. - Jean Meslier Priest · France
Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
