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“
hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues.
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Molière
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Don Juan; or, The Feast of Stone
(1665)
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Author
Molière
Source
Don Juan; or, The Feast of Stone
Topic
hypocrisy
vice
Date
1665
Language
English
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Translated by Henri van Laun
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"hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues." Molière, Don Juan; or, The Feast of Stone (1665).
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