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."
"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."
"The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love."
"Je l'ai trop aimé pour ne le point haïr!"
"Ce que je sais le mieux, c'est mon commencement."
"Vous êtes empereur, Seigneur, et vous pleurez!"
"Mon unique espérance est dans mon désespoir."
"Jamais on ne vaincra les Romains que dans Rome."
"Un bienfait reproché tient toujours lieu d’offense."
"Tout m'afflige et me nuit, et conspire à me nuire."
"Ariane, ma sœur, de quel amour blessée, Vous mourûtes aux bords où vous fûtes laissée."
"C'est toi qui l'as nommé."
"L'innocence enfin n'a rien à redouter."
"Pour réparer des ans l'irréparable outrage."
"Dieu des Juifs, tu l'emportes!"
"My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled."
"Is a faith without action a sincere faith?"
"There are no secrets that time does not reveal."
"Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?"