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A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.
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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Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
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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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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 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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All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.
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And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?
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