He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

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• Pierre Corneille:

  To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

• Pierre Corneille:

  This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

• Pierre Corneille:

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

• Pierre Corneille:

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

• Pierre Corneille:

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

• Pierre Corneille:

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

• Pierre Corneille:

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

• Pierre Corneille:

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

• Pierre Corneille:

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

• Pierre Corneille:

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