Jean Racine Quotes
- A single word often betrays a great design.
- Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
- Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
- The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
- I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
- He who will travel far spares his steed.
- Honor, without money, is a mere malady.
- How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
- Too much virtue can be criminal.
- Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
- The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
- Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
- On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
- It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
- Without money honor is merely a disease.
- My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
- If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
- Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
- Extreme justice is often injustice.
- Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.