To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. — Jean Racine Copy Share
“Le nom d'amant peut-être offense son courage; Mais il en a les yeux, s'il n'en a le langage.” — Jean Racine Copy Share
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything. — Jean Racine Copy Share
Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body. — Jean Racine Copy Share
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. — Jean Racine Copy Share
