Quotes by Jean Racine - Page 2

A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.
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Benefits
Injury
Way
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Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
Jean Racine / Dramatist
Seeking
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What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?
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War
Blood
Violence
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The heart that can no longer love passionately must with fury hate.
Jean Racine / Dramatist
Break Up
Smile
Hate
Heart
Passionate Love
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Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.
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Fruit
Second Marriage
Suspicion
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It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
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Arms
Prudent
Trial
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Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
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Knowing
Knows
Pass
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To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
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Honor
Ruthlessness
Virtue
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The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.
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Feelings
Lasts
Mind
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When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?
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Heart
Lying
Passion
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Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.
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Crime
Linked
Sin
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It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
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All Things
Common
Maxims
Among
Maxim
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If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
Jean Racine / Dramatist
Believe
If I Could
Said
Sincerely
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I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?
Jean Racine / Dramatist
Done
Infidelity
Unfaithful
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Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
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Crime
Degrees
Virtue
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Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.
Jean Racine / Dramatist
God
Fear God
Majesty
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Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.
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Pain
Suffering
Unjust
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On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
Jean Racine / Dramatist
Remorse
Thrones
Worry
Least
Throne
Weighs
Worries
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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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Flames
Passion
Suicide
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Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
Jean Racine / Dramatist
Covering
Eye
Gloomy
Shadow
Cast
Shadows
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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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Men
Indifference
Matter
Man I Am Me
Man Me I Am
Concerns
Deem
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Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
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Circumstances
Admit
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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
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Reluctance
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Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
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Soul
Unseen
Veils
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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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Felt
Heart
Malice
Noble
Pettiness
Cannot
Suspect
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Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
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Wisdom
Too Much
Worry
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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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Eye
Giving
Light
Purity
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I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.
Jean Racine / Dramatist
Guilt
Hate
Passion
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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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Obsession
Veins
Venus
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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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Power
Law
Passion
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The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Jean Racine / Dramatist
Eye
Glory
Mortals
Names
Shame
Escape
Increases
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I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
Jean Racine / Dramatist
Want
Nothing
Although
Am
Still
Possess
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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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Faith
Iron
Slavery
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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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Fall
Guilt
Vices
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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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Time
Forever
Goodbye
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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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Literature
Passion
Tragedy
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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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Art
Achieve
Firsts
Moving
Please
Principal
First One
Rule
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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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Expensive
Forts
Witness
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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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Degrees
Innocence
Virtue
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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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Crime
Extremes
Innocence
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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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Brighter
Eye
Fire
Love Is
Shut Up
Silence
Soul
Voice
Love Eyes Love Is
Betrays
Burn
Eyes
Shut
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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.
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Disposition
Inclination
Women Will Know
Hearts
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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.
Jean Racine / Dramatist
Death
Sad
Blood
Enough
Feeling Sad
Filled
Majestic
Pleasure
Sadness
Tragedy
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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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God
Faith
Night
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He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear.
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God
Secret
Wicked
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He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.
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Design
Rage
Sea
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Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
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Degrees
Law
Rights
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How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His judges, nor of His executioners. They report the facts without a single reflection. They comment neither on their Master's mildness when He was smitten, nor on His constancy in the hour of His ignominious death, which they thus describe: "And they crucified Jesus.
Jean Racine / Dramatist
Jesus
Beautiful
Bible
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