117 Quotes by Jean Racine

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

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

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

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.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!