Top 80 Jean Racine Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.”

— Jean Racine

52. “Without money honor is merely a disease.”

— Jean Racine

53. “Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.”

— Jean Racine

54. “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.”

— Jean Racine

55. “I can hear those glances that you think are silent.”

— Jean Racine

56. “Present, I flee you: absent, I find you again.”

— Jean Racine

57. “It’s no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it’s Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.”

— Jean Racine

58. “All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.”

— Jean Racine

59. “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?”

— Jean Racine

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

— Jean Racine

61. “The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.”

— Jean Racine

62. “Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus.”

— Jean Racine

63. “Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!”

— Jean Racine

64. “The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.”

— Jean Racine

65. “Sun, I come to see you for the last time.”

— Jean Racine

66. “On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.”

— Jean Racine

67. “Too much virtue can be criminal.”

— Jean Racine

68. “To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.”

— Jean Racine

69. “Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.”

— Jean Racine

70. “I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.”

— Jean Racine

71. “Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.”

— Jean Racine

72. “Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.”

— Jean Racine

73. “A single word often betrays a great design.”

— Jean Racine

74. “I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?”

— Jean Racine

75. “How good is God! How sweet his yoke!”

— Jean Racine

76. “What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?”

— Jean Racine

77. “You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.”

— Jean Racine

78. “Justice in the extreme is often unjust.”

— Jean Racine

79. “Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.”

— Jean Racine

80. “I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.”

— Jean Racine

81. “By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!”

— Jean Racine

82. “Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!”

— Jean Racine

83. “There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.”

— Jean Racine

84. “Honor, without money, is a mere malady.”

— Jean Racine

85. “When I’m carried away, isn’t it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?”

— Jean Racine

86. “Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!”

— Jean Racine

87. “If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.”

— Jean Racine

88. “Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?”

— Jean Racine

89. “It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.”

— Jean Racine