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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 precedes great ones.
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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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I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
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Extreme justice is often injustice.
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There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
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On the throne, one has many worries and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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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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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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Innocence has nothing to dread.
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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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According as the man is, so must you humour him.
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By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!
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A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.
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How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
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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 part I remember best is the beginning.
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Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
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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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Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
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