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.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

In Russia there are no roads - only areas.