WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/moliere/76486/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Moliere</b></a></p><blockquote>TARTUFFE: Your scruple, then, is easy to allay:<br> Our secret will be safe with us alone,<br> And there’s no evil if the thing’s not known.<br> The one offense lies in the public shame,<br> And secret sin is sin only in name.<br> <br><i>[Enfin votre scrupule est facile à détruire.<br>Vous êtes assurée ici d’un plein secret,<br>Et le mal n’est jamais que dans l’éclat qu’on fait.<br>Le scandale du monde est ce qui fait l’offense,<br>Et ce n’est pas pécher que pécher en silence]</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 4, sc. 5 (1669) [tr. Frame (1967)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, other translations: <a href="https://wist.info/moliere/76486/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/moliere/76486/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=moliere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moliere</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=tartuffe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tartuffe</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=publicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=scandal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scandal</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=secrecy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secrecy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=sin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sin</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=vice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wrongdoing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wrongdoing</span></a></p>