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
I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.
Too much virtue can be criminal.
Honor, without money, is a mere malady.
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
I have loved him too much not to hate
A single word often betrays a great design.
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!
By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!
You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.
Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?
Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits.
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.