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He who will travel far spares his steed.
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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Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
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The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
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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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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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Crime like virtue has its degrees and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
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How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
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Innocence has nothing to dread.
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I loved you when you were unfaithful what would I have done if you were true?
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And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
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And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
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Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?
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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
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All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
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The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
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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 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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Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
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A single word often betrays a great design.
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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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