To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
PIERRE CORNEILLE This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
PIERRE CORNEILLE One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
PIERRE CORNEILLE In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Brave men are brave from the very first.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfai...
PIERRE CORNEILLE All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. [Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud...
PIERRE CORNEILLE All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extre...
PIERRE CORNEILLE To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so. [Fr., Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Peace is produced by war.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Happiness seems made to be shared.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
PIERRE CORNEILLE A liar is full of oaths.
PIERRE CORNEILLE All evils are equal when they are extreme.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
PIERRE CORNEILLE We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
PIERRE CORNEILLE We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
PIERRE CORNEILLE To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
PIERRE CORNEILLE One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
PIERRE CORNEILLE It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
PIERRE CORNEILLE To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Guess if you can, choose if you dare.
PIERRE CORNEILLE And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. [Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE A liar is always lavish of oaths. [Fr., Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE A good memory is needed once we have lied. [Fr., Il faut bonne memoire apres qu'on a menti.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our frien...
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who forgives readily only invites offense. [Fr., Qui pardonne aisement invite a l'offenser.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare. [Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who is hated by all can not expect to live long. [Fr., Qui vit hai de tous ne saurait longtemps...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
PIERRE CORNEILLE True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque Qui...
PIERRE CORNEILLE An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is n...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Ambition aspires to descend.
PIERRE CORNEILLE By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les sou...
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! ...
PIERRE CORNEILLE When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
PIERRE CORNEILLE When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Love is a tyrant sparing none.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
PIERRE CORNEILLE One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who forgives readily only invites offense.
PIERRE CORNEILLE A good memory is needed after one has lied.
PIERRE CORNEILLE It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
PIERRE CORNEILLE As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Who pardons easily invites offense
PIERRE CORNEILLE A liar is always lavish of oaths.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
PIERRE CORNEILLE By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
PIERRE CORNEILLE And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
PIERRE CORNEILLE And the battle ended through lack of combatants.
PIERRE CORNEILLE A service beyond all recompense - Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense
PIERRE CORNEILLE Reason and love are sworn enemies
PIERRE CORNEILLE It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
PIERRE CORNEILLE When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is tallow a remedy to be applied.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
PIERRE CORNEILLE The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
PIERRE CORNEILLE One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be
PIERRE CORNEILLE He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Every man of courage is a man of his word.
PIERRE CORNEILLE To myself alone do I owe my fame.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes: Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autre...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Czując cudownie w sobie rozdwojoną duszę
Raz nim gardzę, drugi raz wzdychać za nim muszę.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Wer es zulässt, dass man ihn beleidigt, verdient es.
PIERRE CORNEILLE In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
PIERRE CORNEILLE How delicious is pleasure after torment!
PIERRE CORNEILLE Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
PIERRE CORNEILLE One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.
CORNEILLE We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
CORNEILLE Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be ...
CORNEILLE EWANGO Around 17 to 20 years, I became, myself, a poacher. And I wanted to do it, because - I believed - to...
CORNEILLE EWANGO Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was bo...
CORNEILLE EWANGO What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.
PIERRE My family background was deeply Christian.
ABBE PIERRE And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
PIERRE LOTI It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative ...
ABBE PIERRE Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the cou...
PIERRE TRUDEAU When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
ABBE PIERRE It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
ABBE PIERRE Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
ABBE PIERRE I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
ABBE PIERRE Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
ABBE PIERRE Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
ABBE PIERRE Hope is not a matter of age.
ABBE PIERRE People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in peopl...
ABBE PIERRE The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a ...
ABBE PIERRE What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's ...
PIERRE OMIDYAR In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inev...
PIERRE LAVAL Microfinance initiatives are very high-touch models. The loan officer meets with local groups of bor...
PIERRE OMIDYAR People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in peopl...
ABBE PIERRE It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side...
ABBE PIERRE It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
ABBE PIERRE Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwh...
PIERRE CONEILLE Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
PIERRE CHARRON The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but...
PIERRE CHARRON The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
PIERRE CHARRON Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
PIERRE CONEILLE Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
PIERRE BONNARD A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
PIERRE BURTON Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhil...
PIERRE CONEILLE The true science and study of man is man.
PIERRE CHARRON The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN Don’t force your gifts: if you are a rascal, live like one; if you are half honest, be half honest...
PIERRE CERESOLE If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, ...
PIERRE GALLOIS It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it...
PIERRE CHARRON I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was ...
PIERRE LOTI The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influe...
PIERRE BOURDIEU Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
PIERRE BONNARD The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
PIERRE BONNARD After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and ...
PIERRE NINEY The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
PIERRE BOURDIEU It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and...
PIERRE BAYLE Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, inso...
PIERRE BOURDIEU Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
PIERRE BONNARD Don't allow the pride, ego and insecurities of others stunt your growth.
YVONNE PIERRE But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama bu...
PIERRE LOTI When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once ...
YVONNE PIERRE At times, we are the bridge that allows another to re-enter the world after a loss. Don't mistake it...
DANIELLE PIERRE Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creation...
PIERRE LOTI The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, w...
ABBE PIERRE Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recogn...
PIERRE LOTI The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
PIERRE BAYLE It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear pow...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest c...
ABBE PIERRE There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first auth...
PIERRE BAYLE I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Euro...
PIERRE LAVAL In the early days of eBay, I articulated for the very first time this belief that people are basical...
PIERRE OMIDYAR Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, whic...
PIERRE SCHAEFFER Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
PIERRE SALINGER What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they sho...
ABBE PIERRE When the winds of life are pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest.
YVONNE PIERRE It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the...
YVONNE PIERRE God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a co...
YVONNE PIERRE I think it's better to be a woman with some curves. It's more natural.
PIERRE DUKAN My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
PIERRE TRUDEAU Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
PIERRE BAYLE The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.
PIERRE SCHAEFFER We need some big guards.
BUTCH PIERRE We knew what he could be, but he kind of got out of town on us and people saw him.
BUTCH PIERRE That was when it kicked in, when they kind of started to understand.
BUTCH PIERRE It's basically Louisiana kids. If you can sign the top two or three Louisiana kids every year, you s...
BUTCH PIERRE It's a family type thing.
BUTCH PIERRE As soon as he crosses mid-court, he's a threat to put one up.
BUTCH PIERRE He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign ...
PIERRE SALINGER I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through...
PIERRE TRUDEAU There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.
PIERRE DUKAN I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.
PIERRE REVERDY The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
PIERRE CHARRON If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in ...
PIERRE BAYLE in the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.
PIERRE CORRIELLE He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.
PIERRE CHARRON The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
PIERRE TRUDEAU The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we w...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing thei...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, le...
PIERRE TRUDEAU Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are base...
PIERRE TRUDEAU We ask them to think outside the box when they are nominating. It may be the quiet, shy girl no one ...
CHéRI PIERRE Show your children tolerance, humility, respect, honesty, and curiosity towards the universe they ar...
PIERRE MOUELHI Before being able to strive forward, you have to give yourself credit for what you put up with.
PIERRE MOUELHI I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall J...
PIERRE LOTI Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirabl...
PIERRE CURIE Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the popul...
PIERRE BOURDIEU In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaint...
PIERRE OMIDYAR Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.
PIERRE OMIDYAR Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be ...
PIERRE BEAUMARCHAIS For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50...
PIERRE DUKAN I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.
PIERRE COFFIN How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that...
PIERRE COFFIN