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Jean Racine
Age: 59 †
Born: 1639
Born: December 1
Died: 1699
Died: April 21
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Jean Baptiste Racine
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The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
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Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
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A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.
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On the throne, one has many worries and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
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Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
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Extreme justice is often injustice.
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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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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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She wavers, she hesitates in one word — she is a woman.
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Innocence has nothing to dread.
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My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
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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 and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
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There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
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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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Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
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He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
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The part I remember best is the beginning.
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