Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Jean Racine
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French dramatist Jean Racine.
Last updated on November 5, 2024.
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
Too much virtue can be criminal.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
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.
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Without money honor is merely a disease.
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
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.
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
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.
Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His judges, nor of His executioners. They report the facts without a single reflection. They comment neither on their Master's mildness when He was smitten, nor on His constancy in the hour of His ignominious death, which they thus describe: "And they crucified Jesus.
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.
Extreme justice is often injustice.
I have loved him too much not to hate
And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
Often it is fatal to live too long.
The part I remember best is the beginning.
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
Innocence has nothing to dread.
Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?
I can hear those glances that you think are silent.
Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits.
My only hope lies in my despair.
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
The heart that can no longer love passionately must with fury hate.
Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?
I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
He who will travel far spares his steed.
You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.
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.
The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
This innocence begins to weigh me down.
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