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Book Review: Phèdre by Jean Racine

“Against my will my eyes / Fill up with tears.”

– Phèdre I. iii.

“The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God.”
– Psalms 52:1

“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is…”

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Whence comes the Innovator’s authority to pick and choose?”
– C. S. Lewis

“Beneath the rule of men entirely great / The pen is mightier than the sword.”

– Richelieu; Or, the Conspiracy II. 2.

“There will be no lack of Christian daring / In this little house of Portugal.”

– The Lusíads VII. 14.

E pluribus unum?

“Grief everywhere, Everywhere terror, and all shapes of death.”
– Aeneid II. 490-491

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?”

– Job 40:20