Jean Racine Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Jean Racine:

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

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.

Jean Racine

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

Jean Racine

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

Jean Racine

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

Jean Racine

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

Jean Racine

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Jean Racine

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

Jean Racine

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

Jean Racine

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

Jean Racine

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

Jean Racine

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Jean Racine

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

Jean Racine

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

Jean Racine

Without money honor is merely a disease.

Jean Racine

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

Jean Racine

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

Jean Racine

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

Jean Racine

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

Jean Racine

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

Jean Racine

Too much virtue can be criminal.

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

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

Jean Racine

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

According as the man is, so must you humour him.

Jean Racine

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Jean Racine

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

Jean Racine