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  1. A quotation from Moliere

       DON JUAN: It’s no longer shameful to be a dissembler; hypocrisy is now a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues.
     
       [DON JUAN: Il n’y a plus de honte maintenant à cela ; l’hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus.]

    Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
    Don Juan [Dom Juan], Act 5, sc. 2 (1665) [tr. Wilbur (2001)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/moliere/80407/

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  2. A quotation from Talleyrand

    Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts.
     
    [La parole a été donné à l’homme pour déguiser sa pensée.]

    Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) French secularized clergyman, statesman, wit, diplomat
    (Attributed)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/talleyrand/79291/

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