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Too much virtue can be criminal.
Jean Racine
Virtue
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
Jean Racine
Nothing
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
Jean Racine
Time
Secrets
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Jean Racine
Art
First
Rules
Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
Jean Racine
Misery
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
Jean Racine
Remorse
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
Jean Racine
May
Nothing
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
Jean Racine
Death
Day
Eyes
Light
Purity
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
Jean Racine
Time
Circumstances
Man
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
Jean Racine
Love
Soul
Eyes
Fire
Silence
Voice
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
Jean Racine
Love
Lovers
Quarrels