Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Jean Racine
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jean Racine
Age: 59 †
Born: 1639
Born: December 1
Died: 1699
Died: April 21
Author
Dramatist
Historian
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Ferté-Milon (La)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
Never
Suddenly
Pass
Licentiousness
Crime
Precede
Ones
Timid
Seen
Crimes
Small
Extreme
Great
Innocence
Always
Extremes
More quotes by Jean Racine
Extreme justice is often injustice.
Jean Racine
By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!
Jean Racine
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
Jean Racine
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
Jean Racine
Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
Jean Racine
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.
Jean Racine
Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?
Jean Racine
Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
Jean Racine
I have loved him too much not to hate
Jean Racine
Innocence has nothing to dread.
Jean Racine
He who will travel far spares his steed.
Jean Racine
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
Jean Racine
A single word often betrays a great design.
Jean Racine
Crime like virtue has its degrees and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.
Jean Racine
And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
Jean Racine
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
Jean Racine
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
Jean Racine
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.
Jean Racine
Honor, without money, is a mere malady.
Jean Racine
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.
Jean Racine
