Jean Racine

Jean Racine

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Biography

Jean-Baptiste Racine was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie.

"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."

Jean Racine

"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

"The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love."

Jean Racine

"Je l'ai trop aimé pour ne le point haïr!"

Jean Racine

"Ce que je sais le mieux, c'est mon commencement."

Jean Racine

"Vous êtes empereur, Seigneur, et vous pleurez!"

Jean Racine

"Mon unique espérance est dans mon désespoir."

Jean Racine

"Jamais on ne vaincra les Romains que dans Rome."

Jean Racine

"Un bienfait reproché tient toujours lieu d’offense."

Jean Racine

"Tout m'afflige et me nuit, et conspire à me nuire."

Jean Racine

"Ariane, ma sœur, de quel amour blessée, Vous mourûtes aux bords où vous fûtes laissée."

Jean Racine

"C'est toi qui l'as nommé."

Jean Racine

"L'innocence enfin n'a rien à redouter."

Jean Racine

"Pour réparer des ans l'irréparable outrage."

Jean Racine

"Dieu des Juifs, tu l'emportes!"

Jean Racine

"My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled."

Jean Racine

"Is a faith without action a sincere faith?"

Jean Racine

"There are no secrets that time does not reveal."

Jean Racine

"Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?"

Jean Racine