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Jean Racine
Age: 59 †
Born: 1639
Born: December 1
Died: 1699
Died: April 21
Author
Dramatist
Historian
Librettist
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Ferté-Milon (La)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
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I loved you when you were unfaithful what would I have done if you were true?
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He who will travel far spares his steed.
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To repair the irreparable ravages of time.
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Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?
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Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
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Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
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Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
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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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Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
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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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Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
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And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
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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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He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
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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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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
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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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I have loved him too much not to hate
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