Jean Racine Quotes

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

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.

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

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

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

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

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

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.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.

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

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

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.

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

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

None love, but they who wish to love.

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

My only hope lies in my despair.

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

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.

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

Innocence has nothing to dread.

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

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

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

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

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

Without money honor is merely a disease.

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

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

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

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

He who will travel far spares his steed.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

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

Too much virtue can be criminal.

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

A single word often betrays a great design.

Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

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

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

This innocence begins to weigh me down.

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

He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.