Jean Racine

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

— Jean Racine

“Tyranny always starts auspiciously.”

— Jean Racine

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

— Jean Racine

You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.

— Jean Racine

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

— Jean Racine

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

— Jean Racine

And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?

— Jean Racine

Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

— Jean Racine

“Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius. [There is nothing more unfair than an ignoramus.]”

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting…

— Jean Racine

“ I cherished you inconstant; what would I have done, faithful? Now, even now, when your cruel mouth so calmly speaks my…

— Jean Racine

He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with…

— Jean Racine

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all…

— Jean Racine

When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the…

— Jean Racine

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the…

— Jean Racine

“Do not expect me then to answer for A heart so little master of itself. He may, sir, in this frenzied turmoil…

— Jean Racine

“In their opinion, a tragedy with so little plot could not conform with the rules of drama. I enquired whether they were…

— Jean Racine

How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His…

— Jean Racine

Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most…

— Jean Racine

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

— Jean Racine

A single word often betrays a great design.

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

My only hope lies in my despair.

— Jean Racine

Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.

— Jean Racine

He who has far to ride spares his horse.

— Jean Racine

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

— Jean Racine

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

— Jean Racine

This innocence begins to weigh me down.

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.

— Jean Racine

Often it is fatal to live too long.

— Jean Racine

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

— Jean Racine