What did Pierre Corneille mean by: Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. Pierre Corneille Playwright · France Copy
+ Ambition displeases when it has been sated … having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Pierre Corneille, Ambition, Descent, Satisfaction, 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. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Pierre Corneille, Achievement, Glory, Power, 0 Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Pierre Corneille, Consequences, Justice, Retribution, 0 Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Pierre Corneille, Ambition, Risk-taking, Self-control, 0 Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Pierre Corneille, Advice, Choice, 0 Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Pierre Corneille, Fallibility, Leadership, Power, 0 Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Pierre Corneille, Equality, Humility, Power, 0 Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
+ I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Pierre Corneille, Nobility, Valor, Youth, 0 Pierre Corneille Playwright · France
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
