Jean Racine Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

  Jean Racine

  Thinking, Holiness, Injustice

• I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

  Jean Racine

  Brutality, Virtue

• Too much virtue can be criminal.

  Jean Racine

  Criminals, Too Much, Virtue

• 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.

  Jean Racine

  Rights, Law, Degrees

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

  Jean Racine

  Guilt, May, Too Much

• Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

  Jean Racine

  Fall, Guilt, Vices

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

  Jean Racine

  Degrees, Virtue, Crime

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

  Jean Racine

  Degrees, Innocence, Virtue

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

  Jean Racine

  Honor, Ruthlessness, Virtue

• Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

  Jean Racine

  Degrees, Virtue, Crime

  1677 Phe'dre, act 4, sc.2.

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