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Jean Racine [1639-1699] French
Rank: 107
Dramatist


Jean Racine, baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine, was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.

Death, Faith, Sad, Time



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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
101
There are no secrets that time does not reveal. Time
102
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
103
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. Death, Sad
104
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
105
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
106
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
107
Is a faith without action a sincere faith? Faith
108
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
109
In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.
110
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
111
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
112
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
113
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.
114
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
115
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
116
Without money honor is merely a disease.
117
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
119
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.
120
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
121
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
122
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
123
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
124
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
125
Too much virtue can be criminal.
126
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
201
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
202
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
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