Pierre Corneille

“Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.”

“A good memory is needed after one has lied.”

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

“It takes good memory to keep up a lie.”

“He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.”

“He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.”

“He who pardons easily invites offense.”

“A liar is always lavish of oaths.”

“He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.”

“To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.”

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

“Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.”

“The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.”

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

“In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.”

“Love is a tyrant sparing none.”

“How delicious is pleasure after torment!”

“Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.”

“To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.”

“Just vengeance does not call for punishment.”