Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.

Quote by Pierre Corneille

Topics: Choice Quotes, Decision Quotes

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

Ambition aspires to descend

Ambition aspires to descend

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of...

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of...

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.

To myself alone do I owe my fame.

To myself alone do I owe my fame.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

I would not like a king who could obey.

I would not like a king who could obey.