What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
MoliereA wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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