Jean Racine Quotes

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Jean Racine

Profession : Dramatist

Birth : December 22, 1639

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

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

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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

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Without money honor is merely a disease.

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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.

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Too much virtue can be criminal.

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Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

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Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

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

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

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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.

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

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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

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

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

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

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

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

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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

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