Quotation by Jean Racine

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
Jean Racine (1639–1699), French playwright. Esther, in Esther, act 3, sc. 5 (1689).

Esther is speaking of the captive Jews.
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