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. Wikipedia
Foto: After Charles Le Brun, Scanned from a book / Public domain
Frasi Pierre Corneille
„Chi acconsente di essere insultato merita di esserlo.“
libro Il piccolo libro degli insulti, Beppe Cottafavi
„One is often guilty by being too just.“
— Pierre Corneille, The Death of Pompey
À force d'être juste on est souvent coupable.
Photin, act I, scene i.
La Mort de Pompée (The Death of Pompey) (1642)
„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 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.“
— Pierre Corneille, Nicomède
Prusias, act II, scene i.
Nicomède (1651)
„The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.“
— Pierre Corneille, Nicomède
Le Roi, juste et prudent, ne veut que ce qu'il peut.
Laodice, act I, scene ii.
Nicomède (1651)
„How sweet to die after one’s enemies.“
— Pierre Corneille, Rodogune
Il est doux de périr après ses ennemis.
Cléopâtre, act V, scene i.
Rodogune (1644)
