To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
"Pierre Corneille" was a French tragedy/tragedian, and one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Jean Racine/Racine.
As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later quarrelled with him, especially over his best-known play Le Cid about a medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed Académie française for breaching the classical unities/unities. He continued to write well-received tragedies for nearly forty years.
File:Coat of Arms Corneille - Cornielje.jpg/thumb/upright/Coat of arms of the Corneille family, dating back to 1637
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He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
Happiness seems made to be shared.
When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.
A liar is always lavish of oaths.
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
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