Top 98 Jean Racine Quotes
#1. Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
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#2. My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
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#3. Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.
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#4. The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.
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#5. I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.
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#7. A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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#8. Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
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#9. It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
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#10. He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
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#11. To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
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#12. I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
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#14. Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits.
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#15. The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.
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#16. Honor, without money, is a mere malady.
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#17. There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.
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#18. Sun, I come to see you for the last time.
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#19. Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.
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#21. Without money honor is merely a disease.
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#22. Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
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#23. There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
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#24. Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
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#25. All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
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#26. He who has far to ride spares his horse.
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#27. Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
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#28. To repair the irreparable ravages of time.
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#29. Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
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#30. It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
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#31. The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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#32. By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!
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#33. The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
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#34. 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?
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#35. A single word often betrays a great design.
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#36. 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.
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#37. Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?
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#38. I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?
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#39. I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
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#40. What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?
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#41. Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?
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#42. 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.
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#43. I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
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#44. A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.
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#45. Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
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#46. According as the man is, so must you humour him.
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#47. Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.
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#48. Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
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#49. It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
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#50. Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
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#51. The part I remember best is the beginning.
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#52. He who will travel far spares his steed.
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#53. And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
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#54. Small crimes always precedes great ones.
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#55. Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
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#57. Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.
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#58. Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.
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#59. I can hear those glances that you think are silent.
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#60. And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
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#61. In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.
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#62. If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
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#63. The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.
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#64. Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
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#65. 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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#66. The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
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#67. I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.
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#68. Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?
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#69. Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
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#70. Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
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#71. Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!
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#72. Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
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#73. You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.
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#74. Happiness heldis the seed
happiness shared is the flower,
happiness seems to be shared
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#75. Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
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#76. The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
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#77. Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.
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#78. 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.
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#79. She wavers, she hesitates: in a word, she is a woman.
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#81. 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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#83. 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.
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#84. 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.
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#85. You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.
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#86. Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
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#87. The heart that can no longer love passionately must with fury hate.
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#88. On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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#90. Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
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#91. When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?
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#92. Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.
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#93. There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
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#95. I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
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#96. The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
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#97. The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
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