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Jean Racine
Age: 59 †
Born: 1639
Born: December 1
Died: 1699
Died: April 21
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Dramatist
Historian
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
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Writer
Ferté-Milon (La)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
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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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Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
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Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
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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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To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.
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I loved you when you were unfaithful what would I have done if you were true?
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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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I have loved him too much not to hate
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Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
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Extreme justice is often injustice.
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Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.
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There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
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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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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 glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
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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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