Zitat des Tages von Jean Racine:
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
Without money honor is merely a disease.
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
Too much virtue can be criminal.
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.
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
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.
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.