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There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

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Jean Racine
Age: 59 †
Born: 1639
Born: December 1
Died: 1699
Died: April 21
Author
Dramatist
Historian
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Ferté-Milon (La)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
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Secrets
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Doe
Time

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There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.
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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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According as the man is, so must you humour him.
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The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
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She wavers, she hesitates in one word — she is a woman.
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By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!
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All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
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Great crimes come never singly they are linked To sins that went before.
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Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
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I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
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On the throne, one has many worries and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
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I have loved him too much not to hate
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He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear.
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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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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
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To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
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