Quotes By Jean Racine

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

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

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

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.

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

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.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

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

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

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

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

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.

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

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

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

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

According as the man is, so must you humour him.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!