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Crime Quotes by Jean Racine

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Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

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Small crimes always precedes great ones.

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The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

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Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.

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Too much virtue can be criminal.

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

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

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

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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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Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most…

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Too much virtue can be criminal.

Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

The part I remember best is the beginning.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

“Le nom d'amant peut-être offense son courage; Mais il en a les yeux, s'il n'en a le langage.”

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

My only hope lies in my despair.

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

Life is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.

If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.

Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?

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

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