I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. – Pierre Corneille
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. – Pierre Corneille

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. – Pierre Corneille
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. – Pierre Corneille
We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. – Pierre Corneille
A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else. – Pierre Corneille
With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while. – Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook