“Each instant of life is a step toward death.”

— Pierre Corneille, Tite et Bérénice (1670), act V, scene i

About Pierre Corneille

1606 – 1684

French dramatist, one of the three great tragedians of 17th-century France, author of 'Le Cid'.

“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”

“Reason and love are sworn enemies.”

“As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“A living dog is better than a dead lion.”

“The life of the dead is in the memory of the living.”

“A useless life is an early death.”

“The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.”

“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”