A Quote by Pierre Corneille

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

Pierre Corneille

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Ashes Beneath Fire Often Seems Which

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Pierre Corneille
French - Dramatist
June 6, 1606 - October 1, 1684

Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

Michelangelo

As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.

Tikhon of Zadonsk

Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes.

Deepak Chopra

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

Agnes Smedley

I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts. May the fire of transformation glow in our movements. May the fire of purification burn away our sins. May the fire of justice guide our steps. May the fire of wisdom illuminate our paths. May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished.

Paulo Coelho

Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

Amin Maalouf

How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?

Paul Gauguin

People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.

Michael Josephson

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

William Shatner

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Pauline Phillips

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

Abigail Van Buren

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

Charles Kendall Adams

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

Marcus Aurelius

Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return, breathe your last. Air, earth, fire, water, hear my voice, obey my order, thrice around your grave do bound, evil sink into the ground. I now invoke the law of three, this is my will, so mote it be.