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To repair the irreparable ravages of time.
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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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.
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I felt for my crime a just terror I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.
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If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
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Innocence has nothing to dread.
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To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
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She wavers, she hesitates in one word — she is a woman.
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The part I remember best is the beginning.
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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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Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?
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I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
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Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
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And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
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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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By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!
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Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
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Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
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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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