Pierre Corneille

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

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

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

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

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

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.

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

Every man of courage is a man of his word.