Jean Racine Quotes - Page 4

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

  Jean Racine

  Faith

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• How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

  Jean Racine

  Sweet, Home, Yoke

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• The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Names, Shame

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

  Jean Racine

  God, Majesty, Fear God

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• I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

  Jean Racine

  Men, Matter, Indifference

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• The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

  Jean Racine

  Mother, Crime, Burden

  Jean Racine (1885). “Racine's Phèdre, literally tr. by R. Mongan”

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• Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

  Jean Racine

  Justice, Unjust, Extremes

  "La Thébaïde". Book by Jean Racine, Act 4, sc. 3, June 20, 1664.

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• Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.

  Jean Racine

  Evil, Crime

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• The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.

  Jean Racine

  Heart, Depth, Innocence

  Phedre act 4, sc. 2 (1677)

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• Too much virtue can be criminal.

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  Criminals, Too Much, Virtue

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• Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

  Jean Racine

  Degrees, Virtue, Crime

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• Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

  Jean Racine

  Innocence, Crime, Extremes

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• What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

  Jean Racine

  War, Blood, Violence

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• Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

  Jean Racine

  Fruit, Second Marriage, Suspicion

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 771-72, Phèdre, II. 5, 1922.

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• My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Light, Giving

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• And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?

  Jean Racine

  Faith, Fighting, Religion

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