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She wavers, she hesitates in one word — she is a woman.
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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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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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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The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
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Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?
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All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
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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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A single word often betrays a great design.
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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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Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
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Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
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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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If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
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