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How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
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
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And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
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To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
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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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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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I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
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All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
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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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Great crimes come never singly they are linked To sins that went before.
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He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.
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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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Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?
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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
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To repair the irreparable ravages of time.
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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
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The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.
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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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A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.
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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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