“My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.”
Jean Racine
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“The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.”
Jean Racine
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“Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?”
Jean Racine
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“Too much virtue can be criminal.”
Jean Racine
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“I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.”
Jean Racine
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“To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.”
Jean Racine
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“A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.”
Jean Racine
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“Justice in the extreme is often unjust.”
Jean Racine
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“By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!”
Jean Racine
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“Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!”
Jean Racine
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“Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!”
Jean Racine
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“Ah, why can’t I know if I love, or if I hate?”
Jean Racine
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“When I’m carried away, isn’t it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?”
Jean Racine
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“Do not doubt it, he loves. Instructed by so many charms, his eyes have been trained in the use of tears.”
Jean Racine
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“Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.”
Jean Racine
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“It is no longer a flame hidden in my veins; now it is Venus in all her might fastened to her prey.”
Jean Racine
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“And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?”
Jean Racine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“How good is God! How sweet his yoke!”
Jean Racine
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“Is a faith without action a sincere faith?”
Jean Racine
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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?”
Jean Racine
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
