Jean Racine quotes
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“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.”
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“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.”
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“The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.”
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“I can hear those glances that you think are silent.”
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“Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?”
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“Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.”
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“Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.”
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“And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?”
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“When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?”
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“What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?”
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“He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.”
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“Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.”
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“The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.”
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“And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?”
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“You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.”
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“Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?”
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“I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?”
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“I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.”
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“To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.”
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“I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.”
-- Jean RacineSource : Jean Racine (2000). “Three Plays: Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah”, p.87, Wordsworth Editions
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“You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.”
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“The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.”
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“The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.”
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“Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.”
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“All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.”
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“Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!”
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“Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!”
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“By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!”
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“When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?”
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“I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.”
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“The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.”
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“Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!”
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“On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.”
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“It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.”
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“I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.”
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“The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.”
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“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.”
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“According as the man is, so must you humour him.”
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“I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.”
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“The heart that can no longer love passionately must with fury hate.”
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“A single word often betrays a great design.”
-- Jean RacineSource : "Athalie". Book by Jean Racine, II. 6, 1691.
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“A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.”
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“My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.”
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“Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.”
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“Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?”
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“Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.”
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“If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.”
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“Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?”
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“Innocence has nothing to dread.”
-- Jean RacineSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 395-96, Phèdre, III. 6, 1922.
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“There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.”
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“Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.”
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“The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.”
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“Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.”
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“Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.”
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“It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.”
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“The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?”
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“Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.”
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“Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.”
-- Jean RacineSource : 1677 Phe'dre, act 4, sc.2.
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“Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.”
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“Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.”
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“Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.”
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“Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.”
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“Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.”
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“She wavers, she hesitates: in a word, she is a woman.”
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