Frasi di Pierre Corneille
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Pierre Corneille
Data di nascita: 6. Giugno 1606
Data di morte: 1. Ottobre 1684
Pierre Corneille è stato un drammaturgo e scrittore francese, uno dei tre maggiori del XVII secolo, insieme con Molière e Racine.
Frasi Pierre Corneille
„Chi acconsente di essere insultato merita di esserlo.“
libro Il piccolo libro degli insulti, Beppe Cottafavi
„Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.“
— Pierre Corneille, Polyeucte
Fuyez un ennemi qui sait votre défaut.
Néarque, act I, scene i.
Polyeucte (1642)
„He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.“
— Pierre Corneille, Nicomède
Prusias, act II, scene i.
Nicomède (1651)
Contesto: He has served me too well;
By increasing my power he has stolen it away:
He is now my subject only so long as he pleases.
He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.
„Its fury aims to shatter but our altars:
It scorns only the gods and never the mortals.“
— Pierre Corneille, Polyeucte
Sa fureur ne va qu'à briser nos autels,
Elle n'en veut qu'aux dieux, et non pas aux mortels.
Stratonice, act I, scene iii
Referring to the early Christian church.
Polyeucte (1642)
„Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal
To be master of the world just that day.“
— Pierre Corneille, The Death of Pompey
Ne durât-il qu'un jour, ma gloire est sans seconde
D'être du moins un jour la maîtresse du monde.
Cléopâtre, act II, scene i.
La Mort de Pompée (The Death of Pompey) (1642)
„The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.“
— Pierre Corneille, Rodogune
Le feu qui semble éteint souvent dort sous la cendre.
Rodogune, act III, scene iv.
Rodogune (1644)
