Jean Racine Quotes

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

No one becomes depraved all at once.

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

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.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

Every harlot was a virgin once.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort—as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

Yet all this could not suppress the breaking out of sundry notorious sins, … especially drunkenness and uncleaness; not only incontinencie between persons unmarried, for which many both men and women have been punished sharply enough, but some married persons also. But that which is worse, even sodomy and buggery, (things fearful to name) have broke forth in this land

The perception of the right of every man to do pretty much as he pleases…. [which will produce] a general profligacy and corruption such as this country has never known.

An egg thief becomes a camel thief.

When the religion is subjected to restriction, evil, crime, corruption and pornography become spread everywhere

Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.

Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.

No one every suddenly became depraved.

atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.