Jean Racine Quotes - Page 3

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• A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.

  Jean Racine

  Benefits, Way, Injury

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• I have loved him too much not to hate

  Jean Racine

  Hate, Too Much

  Andromaque act 2, sc. 1 (1667)

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• He who has far to ride spares his horse.

  Jean Racine

  Horse, Prudence, Spares

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• Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Shadow, Covering

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• All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

  Jean Racine

  Sleep, Army, Wind

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• None love, but they who wish to love.

  Jean Racine

  Love, Wish, One Love

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• Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?

  Jean Racine

  Doe, Sincere

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

  Jean Racine

  Knowing, Knows

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• I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

  Jean Racine

  Brutality, Virtue

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• Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

  Jean Racine

  Death, Suicide, Despair

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• Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

  Jean Racine

  Money, Honor, Mere

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• Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

  Jean Racine

  Faith, Iron, Slavery

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

  Jean Racine

  Lying, Passion, Heart

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• There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

  Jean Racine

  Guilt, May, Too Much

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• Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!

  Jean Racine

  Passion, Power, Law

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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.

  Jean Racine

  Rights, Law, Degrees

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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

  Hate, Passion, Guilt

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• Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

  Jean Racine

  Pain, Suffering, Unjust

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• Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

  Jean Racine

  Sin, Crime, Linked

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• To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

  Jean Racine

  Irreparable

  Jean Racine (1960). “Five Plays”

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

  Jean Racine

  Believe, Said, Sincerely

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• By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!

  Jean Racine

  Suicide, Passion, Flames

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• Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

  Jean Racine

  Misery, Exceed

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• Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!

  Jean Racine

  Jealousy, Passion, Feels

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• Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?

  Jean Racine

  Hate, Passion, Knows

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