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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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Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Jean Racine
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
Jean Racine
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
Jean Racine
The part I remember best is the beginning.
Jean Racine
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
Jean Racine
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
Jean Racine
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.
Jean Racine
The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
Jean Racine
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
Jean Racine
Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
Jean Racine
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Jean Racine
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
Jean Racine
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
Jean Racine
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
Jean Racine
I felt for my crime a just terror I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.
Jean Racine
Great crimes come never singly they are linked To sins that went before.
Jean Racine
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
Jean Racine
The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Jean Racine
Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
Jean Racine
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
Jean Racine
