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.
I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.
In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.