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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
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Writer
Ferté-Milon (La)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
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Secrets
Secret
Doe
Time

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Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
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Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
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I loved you when you were unfaithful what would I have done if you were true?
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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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On the throne, one has many worries and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
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A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
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Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?
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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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Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
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To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
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Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
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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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A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.
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Small crimes always precedes great ones.
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He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
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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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And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
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