Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Jesus Chris was more than man.

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.