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Jean Racine
Age: 59 †
Born: 1639
Born: December 1
Died: 1699
Died: April 21
Author
Dramatist
Historian
Librettist
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Poet
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Writer
Ferté-Milon (La)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
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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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To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
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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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Honor, without money, is a mere malady.
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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
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According as the man is, so must you humour him.
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The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
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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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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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How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
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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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The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
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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.
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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
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Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
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He who will travel far spares his steed.
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I have loved him too much not to hate
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