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
Love, Voice, Shut, Fires
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
- Jean Racine
Shame, Less, Could, Mortals
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
- Jean Racine
Embrace, Only, Rival, Strangle
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
- Jean Racine
Nothing, Easy, Difficult, Reluctance
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
- Jean Racine
Never, Noble, Felt, Malice
Too much virtue can be criminal.
- Jean Racine
Too Much, Virtue, Too, Criminal
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
- Jean Racine
Old, Common, Maxim, All Things
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
- Jean Racine
Cast, Covering, Even, Gloomy
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
- Jean Racine
Virtue, Pushed, Outright, Brutality
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
- Jean Racine
Person, Before, Arms, Prudent
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
- Jean Racine
Time, Reveal, Does, Secrets
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
- Jean Racine
Believe, Could, Sincerely, If I Could
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
- Jean Racine
I Am, Nothing, Indifference, Concerns
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
- Jean Racine
Justice, Often, Unjust, Extreme
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.
- Jean Racine
Will, Set, Inclination, Hearts
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
- Jean Racine
Misery, Gods, Thank, Hopes
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
- Jean Racine
Worries, Weighs, Least, Remorse
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
- Jean Racine
Faith, Action, Without, Sincere
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
- Jean Racine
Nothing, Found, May, Seeking
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
- Jean Racine
Sweet, How, His, Yoke
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
- Jean Racine
Man, Must, According, Humour
Without money honor is merely a disease.
- Jean Racine
Money, Honor, Disease, Merely
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, Other, Move, Principal
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
Death, Sad, Need, Tragedy
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
- Jean Racine
Admit, Cannot, Would, Circumstances
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
- Jean Racine
Nothing, Still, Although, Possess
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
- Jean Racine
Death, Light, Which, Purity
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
- Jean Racine
Knowing, Nothing, Bring, Pass
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