Jean Racine
She wavers, she hesitates; in one word — she is a woman.Collection: Women
The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.Collection: Feelings
Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.Collection: Soul
When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?Collection: God
Often it is fatal to live too long.Collection: Long
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.Collection: Degrees
He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.Collection: Sea
Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.Collection: Forts
How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His judges, nor of His executioners. They report the facts without a single reflection. They comment neither on their Master's mildness when He was smitten, nor on His constancy in the hour of His ignominious death, which they thus describe: "And they crucified Jesus.Collection: Beautiful
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.Collection: Fall
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.Collection: Tyrants
He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.Collection: Friday
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.Collection: Veins
This innocence begins to weigh me down.Collection: Innocence
You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.Collection: Passion
I have loved him too much not to hateCollection: Hate
He who has far to ride spares his horse.Collection: Horse
A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.Collection: Benefits
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.Collection: Honor
The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.Collection: Evil
All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.Collection: Sleep
Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?Collection: Doe
None love, but they who wish to love.Collection: Love
Sun, I come to see you for the last time.Collection: Death
Honor, without money, is a mere malady.Collection: Money
When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?Collection: Lying
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.Collection: Faith
There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.Collection: Guilt
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!Collection: Passion
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.Collection: Rights
Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.Collection: Pain
Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.Collection: Sin
To repair the irreparable ravages of time.Collection: Irreparable
By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!Collection: Suicide
Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!Collection: Jealousy
Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?Collection: Hate
The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?Collection: Faith
Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.Collection: God
I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.Collection: Hate
The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.Collection: Mother
Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.Collection: Evil
The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.Collection: Heart
Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.Collection: Fruit
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.Collection: Innocence
What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?Collection: War
And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?Collection: Faith
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.Collection: Degrees