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Jean Racine
France
22 Dec 1639 // 21 Apr 1699
Dramatist / Poet / Writer
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On Virtue:
Too much virtue can be criminal
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On Difficulty:
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance
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On Secret:
There are no secrets that time does not reveal
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On Love:
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love
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On Art:
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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On Glory:
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes
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On Government:
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least
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On Circumstances:
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it
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On Love:
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
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On Justice:
Justice in the extreme is often unjust
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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