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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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The part I remember best is the beginning.
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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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He who will travel far spares his steed.
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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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And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
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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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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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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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There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
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How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
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All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
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He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
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A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.
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Honor, without money, is a mere malady.
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Innocence has nothing to dread.
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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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Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
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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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