Jean Racine

“happiness heldis the seed happiness shared is the flower, happiness seems to be shared”

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

“How little do the lips and heart agree! How joyfully do people break their word! We both are strangers in a foreign…

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

Life is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.

— Jean Racine

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

“Elle flotte, elle hésite; en un mot, elle est femme.” “(She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman.)”

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine