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1. "Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve;Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit" ~ Jean Racine
2. "Quand tu sauras mon crime, et le sort qui m'accable,Je n'en mourrai pas moins, j'en mourrai plus coupable" ~ Jean Racine
3. "Est-ce un malheur si grand que de cesser de vivre?" ~ Jean Racine
4. "Elle flotte, elle hésite; en un mot, elle est femme." "(She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman.)" ~ Jean Racine
5. "J'embrasse mon rival, mais c'est pour l'étouffer." ~ Jean Racine
6. "I cherished you inconstant; what would I have done, faithful? Now, even now, when your cruel mouth so calmly speaks my death sentence, I wonder, cold wretch, I wonder still, if I do not love you." ~ Jean Racine
7. "Le nom d'amant peut-être offense son courage;Mais il en a les yeux, s'il n'en a le langage." ~ Jean Racine
8. "Presente, huyes: ausente, te encuentro otra vez." ~ Jean Racine
9. "Grâces au ciel, mes mains ne sont point criminelles. Plût aux dieux que mon cœur fût innocent comme elles!" ~ Jean Racine
10. "In their opinion, a tragedy with so little plot could not conform with the rules of drama. I enquired whether they were complaining that they had found my play boring. I was told that none of them was bored, that they were often touched by it, and that they would go and see it again with pleasure. What more do they want?" ~ Jean Racine
11. "Plus l'offenseur m'est cher, plus je ressens l'injure." ~ Jean Racine
12. "happiness heldis the seedhappiness shared is the flower,happiness seems to be shared" ~ Jean Racine
13. "Mais crains que l'avenir détruisant le passé" ~ Jean Racine
14. "Que ne peut l'amitié conduite par l'amour?" ~ Jean Racine
15. "Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." ~ Jean Racine
16. "There are no secrets that time does not reveal." ~ Jean Racine
17. "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
18. "A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt." ~ Jean Racine
19. "I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him." ~ Jean Racine
20. "It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms." ~ Jean Racine
21. "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
22. "I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me." ~ Jean Racine
23. "Without money honor is merely a disease." ~ Jean Racine
24. "According as the man is, so must you humour him." ~ Jean Racine
25. "Justice in the extreme is often unjust." ~ Jean Racine
26. "Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!" ~ Jean Racine
27. "J'aime en lui sa beauté, sa grâce tant vantée,Présents dont la nature a voulu l'honorer,Qu'il méprise lui-même, et qu'il semble ignorer." ~ Jean Racine
28. "I have loved him too much not to hate" ~ Jean Racine
29. "Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes." ~ Jean Racine
30. "Is a faith without action a sincere faith?" ~ Jean Racine
31. "My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled." ~ Jean Racine
32. "How good is God! How sweet his yoke!" ~ Jean Racine
33. "I have pushed virtue to outright brutality." ~ Jean Racine
34. "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
35. "If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything." ~ Jean Racine
36. "It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends." ~ Jean Racine
37. "Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it." ~ Jean Racine

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