Jean Racine Quotes

» Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

» The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

» In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

» If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.

» I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

» It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

» I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

» I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

» Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

» Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

» There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

» According as the man is, so must you humour him.

» It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

» How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

» I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

» On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

» Without money honor is merely a disease.

» Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

» My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

» Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

» Too much virtue can be criminal.

» Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

» Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

» I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

» There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

» A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

» A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

» Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

» The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

» The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

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