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I have loved him too much not to hate
Jean Racine
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Jean Racine
Age: 59 †
Born: 1639
Born: December 1
Died: 1699
Died: April 21
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Ferté-Milon (La)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
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I felt for my crime a just terror I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.
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Crime like virtue has its degrees and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
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A single word often betrays a great design.
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Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.
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If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
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I loved you when you were unfaithful what would I have done if you were true?
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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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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
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Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
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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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On the throne, one has many worries and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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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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He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
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The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
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To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
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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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The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
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He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.
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Innocence has nothing to dread.
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A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.
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