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Sun, I come to see you for the last time.
— Jean Racine
Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?
— 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
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
— Jean Racine
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
— Jean Racine
You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.
— Jean Racine
To repair the irreparable ravages of time.
— Jean Racine
She wavers, she hesitates: in a word, she is a woman.
— Jean Racine
My only hope lies in my despair.
— Jean Racine
He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
— Jean Racine
Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
— Jean Racine
And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
— Jean Racine
The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
— Jean Racine
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
— Jean Racine
Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
— Jean Racine
Without money honor is merely a disease.
— Jean Racine
Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
— Jean Racine
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
— Jean Racine
All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
— Jean Racine
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
— Jean Racine
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
— Jean Racine
Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits.
— Jean Racine
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
— Jean Racine
Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
— Jean Racine
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
— Jean Racine
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
— Jean Racine
I can hear those glances that you think are silent.
— Jean Racine
Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!
— Jean Racine
There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.
— Jean Racine
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.
— Jean Racine
The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
— Jean Racine
I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.
— Jean Racine
None love, but they who wish to love.
— Jean Racine
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[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.
— Horace Walpole
The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
— Jean Racine
I have loved him too much not to hate
— Jean Racine
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
— Jean Racine
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
— Jean Racine
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
— Jean Racine
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
— Paul Cezanne
The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.
— Jean Racine
Extreme justice is often injustice.
— Jean Racine
Honor, without money, is a mere malady.
— Jean Racine
The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.
— Jean Racine
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
— Jean Racine
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
— Jean Racine
Often it is fatal to live too long.
— Jean Racine
He who will travel far spares his steed.
— Jean Racine
The part I remember best is the beginning.
— Jean Racine
Innocence has nothing to dread.
— 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
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
— Jean Racine
And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
— Jean Racine
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
— Kenneth Rexroth
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
— Jean Racine
He who has far to ride spares his horse.
— Jean Racine
A single word often betrays a great design.
— Jean Racine
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
— Jean Racine
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
— Jean Racine
Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?
— Jean Racine
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
— Jean Racine
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
— Jean Racine
Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.
— Jean Racine
You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.
— Jean Racine
Too much virtue can be criminal.
— Jean Racine
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
— Jean Racine
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
— Jean Racine
