WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/moliere/77585/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Moliere</b></a></p><blockquote>CLÉANTE: And just as there is nothing I more revere<br> Than a soul whose faith is steadfast and sincere,<br> Nothing that I more cherish and admire<br> Than honest zeal and true religious fire,<br> So there is nothing that I find more base<br> Than specious piety’s dishonest face.<br> <br><i>[Et, comme je ne vois nul genre de héros<br>Qui soient plus à priser que les parfaits dévots,<br>Aucune chose au monde et plus noble et plus belle<br>Que la sainte ferveur d’un véritable zèle,<br>Aussi ne vois-je rien qui soit plus odieux<br>Que le dehors plâtré d’un zèle spécieux.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Molière</b> (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]<br><i>Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur],</i> Act 1, sc. 6 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963), 1.5]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, other translations: <a href="https://wist.info/moliere/77585/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/moliere/77585/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=moliere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moliere</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=tartuffe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tartuffe</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=devotion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>devotion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=disingenuity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disingenuity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=facade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>facade</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=faith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>faith</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fervor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fervor</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypocrisy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=piety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>piety</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pretense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pretense</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=zeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zeal</span></a></p>