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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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I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.
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All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
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Innocence has nothing to dread.
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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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A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
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Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
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Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?
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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
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And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
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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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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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And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
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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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Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
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How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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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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Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
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