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Pierre Corneille

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In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.


— Pierre Corneille


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In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.


— Pierre Corneille


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


— Pierre Corneille


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


— Pierre Corneille


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It matters more how one gives than what one gives.


— Pierre Corneille


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It takes good memory to keep up a lie.


— Pierre Corneille


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Just vengeance does not call for punishment.


— Pierre Corneille


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Love is a tyrant sparing none.


— Pierre Corneille


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Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.


— Pierre Corneille


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


— Pierre Corneille


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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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