Pierre Corneille Quotes

L'exemple souvent n'est qu'un miroir trompeur;Et l'ordre du destin qui gêne nos penséesN'est pas toujours écrit dans les choses passées.

Pierre Corneille

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• I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Work
  • Job
  • Hard Work

• As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Hate
  • Author
  • Loyalty

• I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • True
  • Think
  • Democracy

• In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Together
  • Failure
  • Finish

• Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Want
  • Spring
  • Now

• My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Limits
  • Riches
  • Principal

• I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Trying

• A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Trying
  • Love
  • She

• He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wise
  • Others
  • Himself

• I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Successful
  • Blood

• My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Music
  • Father

• I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Great
  • Music
  • Writing

• Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Believe
  • Change

• We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Freedom
  • Pay
  • Price

• I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Real
  • Home
  • Passion

• I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Good
  • Like
  • Say

• In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

  

  Larry Niven
  • May
  • Society
  • Hindsight

• I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Wisdom
  • Thing
  • Possess

• A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Real

• If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Peace
  • Looks
  • Solitude

• Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Secret
  • Public
  • Life is

• L'exemple souvent n'est qu'un miroir trompeur;Et l'ordre du destin qui gêne nos penséesN'est pas toujours écrit dans les choses passées.

  

  Pierre Corneille