Jean Racine famous quotes

None love, but they who wish to love.
-- Jean Racine

#Love #Wish #One Love

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
-- Jean Racine

#Secret #Doe

Extreme justice is often injustice.
-- Jean Racine

#Justice #Injustice #Extremes

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

#Sadness #Blood #Feeling Sad

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
-- Jean Racine

#Love #Lovers #Renewal

I can hear those glances that you think are silent.
-- Jean Racine

#Communication #Thinking #Perception

Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?
-- Jean Racine

#Hate #Passion #I Hate

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
-- Jean Racine

#Faith #Iron #Slavery

Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
-- Jean Racine

#Wisdom #Worry #Too Much

And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
-- Jean Racine

#Faith #Fighting #Religion

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?
-- Jean Racine

#God #Faith #Night

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?
-- Jean Racine

#War #Blood #Doe

He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
-- Jean Racine

#Friday #Laughter #Sunday

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.
-- Jean Racine

#Fruit #Second Marriage #Suspicion

The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.
-- Jean Racine

#Feelings #Mind #Lasts

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
-- Jean Racine

#Mother #Crime #Burden

My only hope lies in my despair.
-- Jean Racine

#Hope #Lying #Despair

And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
-- Jean Racine

#Goodbye #Time #Forever

You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.
-- Jean Racine

#Passion #Tragedy #Literature

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?
-- Jean Racine

#Thinking #Holiness #Injustice

I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?
-- Jean Racine

#Infidelity #Done #Unfaithful

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.
-- Jean Racine

#Hate #Passion #Guilt

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
-- Jean Racine

#Honor #Ruthlessness #Virtue

I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.
-- Jean Racine

#Choices #Waiting #Dying

You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.
-- Jean Racine

#Order #Justice #Guilt

The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.
-- Jean Racine

#Heart #Depth #Innocence

The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
-- Jean Racine

#Evil #Joy #Flow

Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.
-- Jean Racine

#Evil #Crime

All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
-- Jean Racine

#Sleep #Army #Wind

The part I remember best is the beginning.
-- Jean Racine

#Remember

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
-- Jean Racine

#Passion #Power #Law

Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!
-- Jean Racine

#Jealousy #Passion #Feels

By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!
-- Jean Racine

#Suicide #Passion #Flames

When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?
-- Jean Racine

#Lying #Passion #Heart

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.
-- Jean Racine

#Death #Suicide #Despair

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
-- Jean Racine

#Rivals #Embrace

He who will travel far spares his steed.
-- Jean Racine

#Travel

Honor, without money, is a mere malady.
-- Jean Racine

#Money #Honor

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
-- Jean Racine

#Sweet #Home #Yoke

Too much virtue can be criminal.
-- Jean Racine

#Criminals #Too Much #Virtue

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
-- Jean Racine

#Eye #Names #Shame

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
-- Jean Racine

#Misery

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
-- Jean Racine

#Worry #Thrones #Remorse

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
-- Jean Racine

#Common #Maxims

Without money honor is merely a disease.
-- Jean Racine

#Honor #Disease

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
-- Jean Racine

#Brutality #Virtue

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
-- Jean Racine

#Art #Moving #Firsts

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.
-- Jean Racine

#Eye #Love Is #Voice

According as the man is, so must you humour him.
-- Jean Racine

#Men #Humour

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
-- Jean Racine

#Men #Matter #Indifference

I have loved him too much not to hate
-- Jean Racine

#Hate #Too Much

The heart that can no longer love passionately must with fury hate.
-- Jean Racine

#Break Up #Hate #Heart

A single word often betrays a great design.
-- Jean Racine

#Design #Great Design #Single Word

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
-- Jean Racine

#Action #Sincere

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

#Heart #Noble #Malice

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
-- Jean Racine

#Justice #Unjust #Extremes

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

#Eye #Light #Giving

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

#Eye #Shadow #Covering

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

#Knowing

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.
-- Jean Racine

#Sin #Crime

Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
-- Jean Racine

#Innocence

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

#Believe #Said #Sincerely

Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?
-- Jean Racine

#Doe #Sincere

Innocence has nothing to dread.
-- Jean Racine

#Innocence #Dread

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.
-- Jean Racine

#Guilt #May #Too Much

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.
-- Jean Racine

#Fall #Guilt #Vices

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.
-- Jean Racine

#Faces #Firsts #Tyranny

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.
-- Jean Racine

#Pain #Suffering #Unjust

He who has far to ride spares his horse.
-- Jean Racine

#Horse #Prudence

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
-- Jean Racine

#Love #Heart #Dumb

Small crimes always precedes great ones.
-- Jean Racine

#Crime

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
-- Jean Racine

#Veins #Venus #Obsession

The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
-- Jean Racine

#Faith

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.
-- Jean Racine

#Irreparable

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
-- Jean Racine

#Degrees #Innocence #Virtue

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre  s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
-- Jean Racine

#Degrees #Virtue #Crime

Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.
-- Jean Racine

#God #Majesty #Fear God

Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
-- Jean Racine

#Soul #Unseen #Veils

Les te  moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.
-- Jean Racine

#Forts #Witness

Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
-- Jean Racine

#Tyrants #Flight

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
-- Jean Racine

#Innocence #Crime #Extremes

She wavers, she hesitates: in a word, she is a woman.
-- Jean Racine

#Women