When We Are Understood, We Always Speak

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?

Ah! How Annoying That The Law Doesn't Allow A Woman To Change Husbands Just As One Does Shirts.

There Are Pretenders To Piety As Well As To Courage.

Frenchmen Have An Unlimited Capacity For Gallantry And Indulge It On Every Occasion.

No Matter What Everybody Says, Ultimately These Things Can Harm Us Only By The Way We React To Them.