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Small crimes always precedes great ones.
Jean Racine
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Jean Racine
Age: 59 †
Born: 1639
Born: December 1
Died: 1699
Died: April 21
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Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
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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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My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
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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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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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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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To repair the irreparable ravages of time.
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If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
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