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• The heart that can no longer love passionately must with fury hate.

  Jean Racine

  Break Up, Hate, Heart

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• Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

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  Degrees, Innocence, Virtue

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• Often it is fatal to live too long.

  Jean Racine

  Long

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• How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His judges, nor of His executioners. They report the facts without a single reflection. They comment neither on their Master's mildness when He was smitten, nor on His constancy in the hour of His ignominious death, which they thus describe: "And they crucified Jesus.

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  Beautiful, Bible, Jesus

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• And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?

  Jean Racine

  Goodbye, Time, Forever

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• Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.

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  Wisdom, Worry, Too Much

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• On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

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  Worry, Thrones, Remorse

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• He who bridles the fury of the billows knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked. Submitting with respect to His holy will, I fear God, and have no other fear.

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  God, Secret, Wicked

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• Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.

  Jean Racine

  Tyrants, Flight

  Jean Racine, Robert Bruce Boswell (1908). “The Dramatic Works of Jean Racine: A Metrical English Version”

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• A single word often betrays a great design.

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  Writing, Design, Single Word

  "Athalie". Book by Jean Racine, II. 6, 1691.

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• When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?

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  God, Faith, Night

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• Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.

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  Forts, Witness, Expensive

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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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  Sea, Design, Rage

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• She wavers, she hesitates; in one word — she is a woman.

  Jean Racine

  Women

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• The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.

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  Feelings, Mind, Lasts

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• Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.

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  Soul, Unseen, Veils

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• He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.

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  Friday, Laughter, Sunday

  "Les Plaideurs" by Jean Racine, I. 1, June 20, 1664.

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• This innocence begins to weigh me down.

  Jean Racine

  Innocence

  "Three Plays: Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah".

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• It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

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  Common, Maxims, All Things

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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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  Passion, Tragedy, Literature

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• According as the man is, so must you humour him.

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  Men, Humour

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• I have loved him too much not to hate

  Jean Racine

  Hate, Too Much

  Andromaque act 2, sc. 1 (1667)

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• Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

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  Eye, Shadow, Covering

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• None love, but they who wish to love.

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  Love, Wish, One Love

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• It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

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  Veins, Venus, Obsession

  'Phédre' (1677) act 1, sc. 3

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