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The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
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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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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You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.
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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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Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
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Extreme justice is often injustice.
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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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He who will travel far spares his steed.
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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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By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!
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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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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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The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
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Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
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She wavers, she hesitates in one word — she is a woman.
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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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Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
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I have loved him too much not to hate
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And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
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