Jean Racine Quotes
Innocence has nothing to dread.
Racine, Jean. The Dramatic Works of Jean Racine. Translated by Robert Bruce Boswell, vol. 2, George Bell and Sons, 1889, act 3, scene 6.
Assuring one of his business associates alarmed at the landslide election victory of a Democrat, Grover Cleveland:
Jean Racine (/ræˈsiːn/ rass-EEN, US also /rəˈsiːn/ rə-SEEN), baptized Jean-Baptiste Racine, was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, 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. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther for the young.