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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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The part I remember best is the beginning.
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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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Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
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Small crimes always precedes great ones.
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The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.
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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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She wavers, she hesitates in one word — she is a woman.
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I loved you when you were unfaithful what would I have done if you were true?
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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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If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
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Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
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According as the man is, so must you humour him.
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Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.
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A single word often betrays a great design.
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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
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There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
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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 quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.
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