Jean Racine Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Jean Racine
You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth. — Jean Racine
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away. — Jean Racine
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. — Jean Racine
Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body. — Jean Racine
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. — Jean Racine
And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves? — Jean Racine
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! — Jean Racine
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants. — Jean Racine
When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden? — Jean Racine
In their opinion, a tragedy with so little plot could not conform with the rules of drama. I enquired whether they were complaining that they had found my play boring. I was told that none of them was bored, that they were often touched by it, and that they would go and see it again with pleasure. What more do they want? — Jean Racine
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation. — Jean Racine
The face of tyranny Is always mild at first. — Jean Racine
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. — Jean Racine
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality. — Jean Racine
The heart that can no longer love passionately must with fury hate. — Jean Racine
You feign guilt in order to justify yourself. — Jean Racine
The part I remember best is the beginning. — Jean Racine
The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent. — Jean Racine
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes! — Jean Racine
In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before. — Jean Racine
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them. — Jean Racine
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes. — Jean Racine
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one. — Jean Racine
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
Often it is fatal to live too long. — Jean Racine
Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them. — Jean Racine
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking. — Jean Racine
He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear. — Jean Racine
He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday. — Jean Racine
Sun, I come to see you for the last time. — Jean Racine
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything. — Jean Racine
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it. — Jean Racine
Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways. — Jean Racine
The day is not purer than the depths of my heart. — Jean Racine
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. — Jean Racine
To repair the irreparable ravages of time. — Jean Racine
What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled? — Jean Racine
Happiness heldis the seed
happiness shared is the flower,
happiness seems to be shared — Jean Racine
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. — Jean Racine
I can hear those glances that you think are silent. — Jean Racine
Now my innocence begins to weigh me down. — Jean Racine
Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate? — Jean Racine
Without money honor is merely a disease. — Jean Racine
Small crimes always precedes great ones. — Jean Racine
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness. — Jean Racine
He who has far to ride spares his horse. — Jean Racine
I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror. — Jean Racine
How good is God! How sweet his yoke! — Jean Racine
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. — Jean Racine
According as the man is, so must you humour him. — Jean Racine
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
Justice in the extreme is often unjust. — Jean Racine
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
Is a faith without action a sincere faith? — Jean Racine
Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity? — Jean Racine
He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him. — Jean Racine
Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me! — Jean Racine
Extreme justice is often injustice. — Jean Racine
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. — Jean Racine
Honor, without money, is a mere malady. — Jean Racine
I have loved him too much not to hate — Jean Racine
Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear. — Jean Racine
Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion. — Jean Racine
Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes. — Jean Racine
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all? — Jean Racine
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled. — Jean Racine
A single word often betrays a great design. — Jean Racine
There are no secrets that time does not reveal. — Jean Racine
Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before. — Jean Racine
I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true? — Jean Racine
Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits. — Jean Racine
None love, but they who wish to love. — Jean Racine
Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. — Jean Racine
And do you count for nothing God who fights for us? — Jean Racine
How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His judges, nor of His executioners. They report the facts without a single reflection. They comment neither on their Master's mildness when He was smitten, nor on His constancy in the hour of His ignominious death, which they thus describe: And they crucified Jesus. — Jean Racine
I cherished you inconstant; what would I have done,
faithful? Now, even now, when your cruel mouth
so calmly speaks my death sentence, I wonder,
cold wretch, I wonder still, if I do not love you. — Jean Racine
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me. — Jean Racine
The faith that acts not, is it truly faith? — Jean Racine
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least. — Jean Racine
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. — Jean Racine
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. — Jean Racine
Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. — Jean Racine
The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. — Jean Racine
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license. — Jean Racine