French - Dramatist | December 22, 1639 - April 21, 1699
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
Jean Racine
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The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
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Without money honor is merely a disease.
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Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
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In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.
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I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
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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.
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Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
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According as the man is, so must you humour him.
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It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.
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How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
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