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Pierre Corneille

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One is often guilty by being too just.


— Pierre Corneille


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


— Pierre Corneille


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


— Pierre Corneille


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Happiness seems made to be shared.


— Pierre Corneille


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A liar is always lavish of oaths.


— Pierre Corneille


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This dark brightness that falls from the stars.


— Pierre Corneille


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


— Pierre Corneille


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A first impulse was never a crime.


— Pierre Corneille


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Ambition aspires to descend.


— Pierre Corneille


#aspires #descend

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


— Pierre Corneille


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Did you know about Pierre Corneille?

Corneille’s father secured two magisterial posts for him with the Rouen department of Forests and Rivers. He began to focus on an influential verse translation of the Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis which he completed in 1656. Later plays
Even though Corneille was prolific after his return to the stage writing one play a year for the 14 years after 1659 his plays did not have the same success as those of his earlier career.

He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly forty years. Pierre Corneille (French: [pjɛːʁ kɔʁ.

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