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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 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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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
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A single word often betrays a great design.
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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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Small crimes always precedes great ones.
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The part I remember best is the beginning.
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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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Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
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Extreme justice is often injustice.
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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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And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
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The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.
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Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
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He who will travel far spares his steed.
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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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I loved you when you were unfaithful what would I have done if you were true?
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All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
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The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
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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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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
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