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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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Ferté-Milon (La)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
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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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Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
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Great crimes come never singly they are linked To sins that went before.
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All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
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Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
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A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.
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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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On the throne, one has many worries and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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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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I have loved him too much not to hate
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Extreme justice is often injustice.
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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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She wavers, she hesitates in one word — she is a woman.
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How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
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Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
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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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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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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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He who will travel far spares his steed.
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Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
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