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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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A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.
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To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
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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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Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
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How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
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The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
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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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Honor, without money, is a mere malady.
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Great crimes come never singly they are linked To sins that went before.
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Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
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On the throne, one has many worries and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
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Innocence has nothing to dread.
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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.
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Small crimes always precedes great ones.
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The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.
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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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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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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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The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
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