Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.
Pierre CorneilleAn example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past
Pierre CorneilleLove lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
Pierre Corneille