"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the……" — Jean Racine
"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt."
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57 Quotes by Jean Racine
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- 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…
- 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!