Jean Racine Quotes About Innocence

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

    Phedre act 4, sc. 2 (1677)
  • Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

  • Innocence has nothing to dread.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 395-96, Phèdre, III. 6, 1922.
  • Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

  • This innocence begins to weigh me down.

    "Three Plays: Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah".
  • Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

  • 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.

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