Jean Racine
Jean Racine
Jean Racine, baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine, was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie, although he did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, for the young...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth22 December 1639
CountryFrance
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
Honor, without money, is a mere malady.
He who will travel far spares his steed.
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
A single word often betrays a great design.
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
I have loved him too much not to hate
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.