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