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Jean Racine
French
Dramatist
About the author
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Love
#Lovers
#Quarrels
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.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Love
#Eyes
#Soul
#Voice
#Silence
#Fire
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Time
#Man
#Circumstances
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Death
#Day
#Light
#Eyes
#Purity
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Nothing
#May
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Remorse
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Misery
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Art
#First
#Rules
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Time
#Secrets
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Nothing
Too much virtue can be criminal.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Virtue
Without money honor is merely a disease.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Honor
#Money
#Disease
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Justice
#Extreme
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Eyes
#Name
#Glory
#Shame
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Want
#Nothing
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Heart
#Malice
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.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Death
#Tragedy
#Pleasure
#Blood
#Sadness
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Man
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Nothing
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Hell
#Eyes
#Shadows
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Man
#Indifference
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Friends
#Old
#Maxim
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Virtue
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.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Will
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Now
#Nothing
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist
#Action
#Faith
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
Jean Racine,
French
Dramatist