
Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!

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

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

I can hear those glances that you think are silent.

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

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

The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?

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

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

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

None love, but they who wish to love.

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

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

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

I have loved him too much not to hate

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

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?

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

Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.

The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

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

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

Often it is fatal to live too long.

He who will travel far spares his steed.

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

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.

The part I remember best is the beginning.

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

Innocence has nothing to dread.

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

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!

And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?

The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

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

He who has far to ride spares his horse.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

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.

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

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

Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?

Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.

Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

The heart that can no longer love passionately must with fury hate.