Quotations From PIERRE CORNEILLE

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• 21.

  As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. The Count, in The Cid, act 1, sc. 3 (1637).
• 22.

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

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Albin, in Titus and Berenice (Tite et Bérénice), act 1, sc. 3 (1670).
  
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• 23.

  I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Achilles, in The Death of Pompey (La Mort de Pompée), act 1, sc. 1 (1642). Achilles accepts the order from King Ptolemy to assassinate Pompey.
  
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• 24.

  Reason and love are sworn enemies.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. The nurse, in The Widow (La Veuve), act 2, sc. 3 (1632).
  
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• 25.

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

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Araspe, in Nicomède, act 2, sc. 1 (1651).
  
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• 26.

  Its fury aims to shatter but our altars: it scorns only the gods and never the mortals.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. The Roman senator Felix, in Polyeucte, act 1, sc. 3 (1641). Felix speaks of the early Christian church.
• 27.

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

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Chimène, in The Cid, act 3, sc. 3 (1637). Chimène, on learning her lover has killed her father.
  
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• 28.

  Rome alone can resist Rome.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Viriate, in Sertorius, act 3, sc. 1 (1662). Viriate argues that only Roman citizens can defeat the tyranny that reigns there.
  
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• 29.

  He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Don Diègue, in The Cid, act 1, sc. 5 (1637).
  
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• 30.

  If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?

  Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Domitian, in Titus and Berenice (Tite et Bérénice), act 4, sc. 3 (1670). Domitian speaks to his beloved.
  
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