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Jean Racine
Age: 59 †
Born: 1639
Born: December 1
Died: 1699
Died: April 21
Author
Dramatist
Historian
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Ferté-Milon (La)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
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Single
Word
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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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Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
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The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
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How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
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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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The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.
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There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.
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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 quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
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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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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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Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
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The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
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Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
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To repair the irreparable ravages of time.
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Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
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Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
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