“Since we are mortal friendships are best kept to a moderate level rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.”

“HIPPOLYTUS: I can't sin against a God I don't believe in.”

“Since we are mortal friendships are best kept to a moderate level rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.”

“I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.”

“There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.”

“Twas easier to disarm the god of strengthThan this Hippolytus, for HerculesYielded so often to the eyes of beauty,As to make triumph cheap.― Jean Racine, Phèdre”

“Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.”

“O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.”

“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”