Jean Racine Quotes - Page 3

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• To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

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  Honor, Ruthlessness, Virtue

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• The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.

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  Evil, Joy, Flow

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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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  Fall, Guilt, Vices

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• He who has far to ride spares his horse.

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  Horse, Prudence, Spares

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• A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury.

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  Benefits, Way, Injury

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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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  Men, Matter, Indifference

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• All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

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  Sleep, Army, Wind

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• Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?

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  Doe, Sincere

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• I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

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  Brutality, Virtue

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• Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

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  Knowing, Knows

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• Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

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  Sin, Crime, Linked

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• Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

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  Money, Honor, Mere

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• Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

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  Death, Suicide, Despair

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• Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

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  Faith, Iron, Slavery

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• There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

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  Guilt, May, Too Much

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• When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?

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  Lying, Passion, Heart

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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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  Passion, Power, Law

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• Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.

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  God, Majesty, Fear God

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• The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?

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  Faith

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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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  Rights, Law, Degrees

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• How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

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  Sweet, Home, Yoke

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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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  Eye, Light, Giving

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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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  Hate, Passion, Guilt

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• Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

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  Pain, Suffering, Unjust

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• To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

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  Irreparable

  Jean Racine (1960). “Five Plays”

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