Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, ...

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
 Pierre Corneille

Quotes from the same author

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
 Pierre Corneille
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
 Pierre Corneille
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
 Pierre Corneille
When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.
 Pierre Corneille
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
 Pierre Corneille