Occupation: Dramatist Birth: December 22, 1639 Death: April 21, 1699
Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways..
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants..
Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes..
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt..
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them..
All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune..
Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?.
Extreme justice is often injustice..
Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage..
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one..
Honor, without money, is a mere malady..
There are no secrets that time does not reveal..
Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?.
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him..
The day is not purer than the depths of my heart..
According as the man is, so must you humour him..
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation..
The face of tyranny Is always mild at first..
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes..
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue..
I can hear those glances that you think are silent..