# Phèdre

- Author: [Jean Racine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-racine.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-racine/phedre

## Quotes

> Innocence has nothing to dread.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-racine/phedre/innocence-has-nothing.md)

> Crime, like virtue, has its degrees;
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> And timid innocence was never known
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> To blossom suddenly into extreme license.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-racine/phedre/crime-like-virtue.md)

> Ariane, my sister, wounded by what love,
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> You died on the shores where you were abandoned.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-racine/phedre/ariane-my-sister.md)

> All afflicts and injures me, and conspires to my injury.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-racine/phedre/all-afflicts-and.md)

> It is no longer a passion hidden in my heart:
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> It is Venus herself fastened to her prey.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-racine/phedre/it-is-no-longer.md)

> You have named him, not I.

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