Jean Racine Quotes

Jean Racine presents grand, poetic musings on power and morality that feel like a tragic monologue.

36 quotes

1. Je l'ai trop aime pour ne le point hair!

2. Derriere un voile, invisible et presente, J'etais de ce grand corps l'ame toute-puissante.

3. Vous etes empereur, Seigneur, et vous pleurez!

4. Mon unique esperance est dans mon desespoir.

5. Tout m'afflige et me nuit, et conspire a me nuire.

6. Ariane, ma soeur, de quelle amour blessee Vous mourutes sur les bords ou vous futes laissee.

7. C'est toi qui l'as nomme.

8. Ce n'est plus une ardeur dans mes veines cachee: C'est Venus toute entiere a sa proie attachee.

9. L'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.

10. Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degres; Et jamais on n'a vu la timide innocence Passer subitement a l'extreme licence.

11. Pour reparer des ans l'irreparable outrage.

12. Dieu des Juifs, tu l'emportes!

13. The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.

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

15. I can hear those glances that you think are silent.

16. Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.

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

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

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

20. I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.

21. Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.

22. Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

23. Too much virtue can be criminal.

24. Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

25. The part I remember best is the beginning.

26. A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

27. Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

28. I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

29. The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

30. My only hope lies in my despair.

31. When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?

32. Life is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.

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

34. Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?

35. Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.

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