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Jean Racine
Age: 59 †
Born: 1639
Born: December 1
Died: 1699
Died: April 21
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Dramatist
Historian
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Poet
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Ferté-Milon (La)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
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Innocence has nothing to dread.
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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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The part I remember best is the beginning.
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Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
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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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All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
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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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I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
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To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
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Small crimes always precedes great ones.
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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
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There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.
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Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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She wavers, she hesitates in one word — she is a woman.
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The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
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Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
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Great crimes come never singly they are linked To sins that went before.
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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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