Corneille

Famous quotes containing the word corneille:

“Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence, that the heavens owe them some recognition: that they arise the stronger the more they are beaten down is hardly the result of common virtues.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)