Quotes by Jean Racine

• The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
• 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.
• Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
• My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
• Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
• On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
• Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
• The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
• How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
• There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
• There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
• Too much virtue can be criminal.
• Without money honor is merely a disease.
• Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
• The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
• I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
• A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
• 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.
• According as the man is, so must you humour him.
• Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
• Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
• I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
• I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
• It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
• I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
• 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.
• 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.
• Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
• It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.