Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

- Pierre Corneille

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

- Pierre Corneille

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

- Pierre Corneille

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

- Pierre Corneille

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

- Pierre Corneille

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

- Pierre Corneille

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

- Pierre Corneille

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

- Pierre Corneille

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

- Pierre Corneille

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

- Pierre Corneille

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

- Pierre Corneille

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

- Pierre Corneille

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

- Pierre Corneille

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

- Pierre Corneille

Happiness seems made to be shared.

- Pierre Corneille

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

- Pierre Corneille

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

- Pierre Corneille

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

- Pierre Corneille

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

- Pierre Corneille

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

- Pierre Corneille