Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.
Jean Racine
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jean Racine
Age: 59 †
Born: 1639
Born: December 1
Died: 1699
Died: April 21
Author
Dramatist
Historian
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Ferté-Milon (La)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
Injury
Benefit
Benefits
Way
Cited
Reproach
Equivalent
More quotes by Jean Racine
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
Jean Racine
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
Jean Racine
The part I remember best is the beginning.
Jean Racine
The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
Jean Racine
On the throne, one has many worries and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
Jean Racine
And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
Jean Racine
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
Jean Racine
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
Jean Racine
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
Jean Racine
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
Jean Racine
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
Jean Racine
By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!
Jean Racine
I felt for my crime a just terror I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.
Jean Racine
He who will travel far spares his steed.
Jean Racine
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
Jean Racine
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
Jean Racine
There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.
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
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
Jean Racine
To repair the irreparable ravages of time.
Jean Racine
