Pierre Corneille Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Pierre Corneille:

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Peace is produced by war.

Pierre Corneille

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

Pierre Corneille

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

Pierre Corneille

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Pierre Corneille

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.

Pierre Corneille

One is often guilty by being too just.

Pierre Corneille

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Pierre Corneille

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

Pierre Corneille

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

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 die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Pierre Corneille

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Pierre Corneille

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Pierre Corneille

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

Pierre Corneille

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Pierre Corneille

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.

Pierre Corneille

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Pierre Corneille

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Pierre Corneille

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Pierre Corneille

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

Pierre Corneille

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

Pierre Corneille

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

Pierre Corneille

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

Pierre Corneille

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

Pierre Corneille

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

Pierre Corneille

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

Pierre Corneille

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Pierre Corneille

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

Pierre Corneille

A first impulse was never a crime.

Pierre Corneille

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Pierre Corneille

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

Pierre Corneille

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Pierre Corneille

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

Pierre Corneille

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.

Pierre Corneille

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Pierre Corneille