Jean Racine Quotes

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• There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

  Jean Racine

  Secret, Doe

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• The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

  Jean Racine

  Faces, Firsts, Tyranny

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

  Jean Racine

  Communication, Thinking, Perception

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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.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Love Is, Fire

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• Extreme justice is often injustice.

  Jean Racine

  Justice, Injustice, Extremes

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

  Jean Racine

  Heart, Noble, Malice

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• The part I remember best is the beginning.

  Jean Racine

  Remember

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

  Jean Racine

  Rivals, Embrace

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• Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

  Jean Racine

  Degrees, Virtue, Crime

  1677 Phe'dre, act 4, sc.2.

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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.

  Jean Racine

  Art, Moving, Firsts

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• I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?

  Jean Racine

  Infidelity, Done, Unfaithful

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• Small crimes always precedes great ones.

  Jean Racine

  Crime, Great Ones

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

  Jean Racine

  Choices, Waiting, Dying

  Jean Racine (2000). “Three Plays: Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah”, p.87, Wordsworth Editions

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• The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

  Jean Racine

  Love, Latin, Renewal

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• Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

  Jean Racine

  Love, Heart, Dumb

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• He who will travel far spares his steed.

  Jean Racine

  Travel, Spares

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 809-11, Plaideurs, I. 1, 1922.

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• My only hope lies in my despair.

  Jean Racine

  Hope, Lying, Despair

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• Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

  Jean Racine

  Action, Sincere

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• Without money honor is merely a disease.

  Jean Racine

  Honor, Disease

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• Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits.

  Jean Racine

  Wrinkles, Brows, Exploits

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• Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

  Jean Racine

  Anticipation, Felicity, Possession

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• Innocence has nothing to dread.

  Jean Racine

  Innocence, Dread

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 395-96, Phèdre, III. 6, 1922.

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• Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

  Jean Racine

  Thinking, Holiness, Injustice

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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

  Sadness, Blood, Feeling Sad

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• Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.

  Jean Racine

  Tyrants, Flight

  Jean Racine, Robert Bruce Boswell (1908). “The Dramatic Works of Jean Racine: A Metrical English Version”

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