Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Moliere on hypocrisy
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MoliereMoliere We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MoliereMoliere He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MoliereMoliere There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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MoliereMoliere They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MoliereMoliere It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MoliereMoliere Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MoliereMoliere Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MoliereMoliere Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
MoliereMoliere Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
MoliereMoliere He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MoliereMoliere How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MoliereMoliere If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.
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