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Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
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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Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
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Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
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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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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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Great crimes come never singly they are linked To sins that went before.
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Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
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You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.
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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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