What did Pierre Corneille mean by: I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love. - Pierre Corneille Playwright · France Copy
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pierre Corneille, Beautiful, Country, Fate, 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
+ 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
+ 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
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. - Frida Kahlo Painter · Mexico
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
