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Pierre Corneille

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My sweetest hope is to lose hope.


— Pierre Corneille


#lose #sweetest

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!


— Pierre Corneille


#despair #enemy #oh #rage

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


— Pierre Corneille


#half #life #my life #one half #other

Peace is produced by war.


— Pierre Corneille


#produced #war

Reason and love are sworn enemies.


— Pierre Corneille


#reason #sworn

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.


— Pierre Corneille


#effect #gentleness #severity #where

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.


— Pierre Corneille


#makes #scaffold #shame

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.


— Pierre Corneille


#glory #greater

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.


— Pierre Corneille


#must #realistic #subject #tragedy

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.


— Pierre Corneille


#game #nature #petty #quality #spirits






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Did you know about Pierre Corneille?

Corneille’s father secured two magisterial posts for him with the Rouen department of Forests and Rivers. He began to focus on an influential verse translation of the Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis which he completed in 1656. Later plays
Even though Corneille was prolific after his return to the stage writing one play a year for the 14 years after 1659 his plays did not have the same success as those of his earlier career.

He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly forty years. Pierre Corneille (French: [pjɛːʁ kɔʁ.

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