If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything. — Jean Baptiste Racine
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me. — Jean Baptiste Racine
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. — Jean Baptiste Racine
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. — Jean Baptiste Racine
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it’s enough that it all be filled with that — Jean Baptiste Racine
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes. — Jean Baptiste Racine
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. — Jean Baptiste Racine
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one. — Jean Baptiste Racine
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least. — Jean Baptiste Racine
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled. — Jean Baptiste Racine
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it. — Jean Baptiste Racine