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Jean Racine
Facts about Jean Racine
Occup.
Dramatist
From
France
Born
December 22, 1639
Died
April 21, 1699
Aged
59 years
Summary
Jean Racine was a famous Dramatist from France, who lived between December 22, 1639 and April 21, 1699. He/she became 59 years old.
Our collection contains 30 quotes who is written / told by Jean.
Related authors:
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Writer),
Sarah Bernhardt
(Actress)
30 Famous quotes by Jean Racine
"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want"
"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"
"Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes"
"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt"
"Too much virtue can be criminal"
"The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes"
"Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking"
"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"
"Is a faith without action a sincere faith?"
"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance"
"My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled"
"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me"
"Without money honor is merely a disease"
"The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one"
"There are no secrets that time does not reveal"
"Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!"
"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends"
"If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything"
"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"
"How good is God! How sweet his yoke!"
"Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it"
"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before"
"I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him"
"According as the man is, so must you humour him"
"The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love"
"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least"
"Justice in the extreme is often unjust"
"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"
"It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms"
"I have pushed virtue to outright brutality"
