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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
Jean Racine
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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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I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
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Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
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According as the man is, so must you humour him.
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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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