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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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I loved you when you were unfaithful what would I have done if you were true?
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He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
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You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.
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Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
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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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Honor, without money, is a mere malady.
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If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
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Extreme justice is often injustice.
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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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Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
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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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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
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According as the man is, so must you humour him.
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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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Great crimes come never singly they are linked To sins that went before.
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And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
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The part I remember best is the beginning.
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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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She wavers, she hesitates in one word — she is a woman.
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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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