Jean Baptiste Racine Quotes

• Without money honor is merely a disease.

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• Too much virtue can be criminal.

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

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• There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

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• The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

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

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

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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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• Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

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

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

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• Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

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

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

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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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Jean Baptiste Racine (30)

Birth:	1639
Death:	21st April, 1699
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Playwright

About

Jean Baptiste Racine was born in La Ferté-Milon, France. He was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. He was expected to study law at the Collège d'Harcourt in Paris, but instead found himself drawn to a more artistic lifestyle. He wrote several plays include: La Thébaïde, Alexandre le Grand, Andromaque, Les Plaideurs, Britannicus, Bérénice, Bajazet,  Mithridate, Iphigénie, Phèdre, Esther, and Athalie.

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