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)]
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(Source (French)). Other translations:

There's no manner of Disgrace in this now-a-days, Hypocrisy is a modish Vice, and all modish Vices pass for Virtues.
[tr. Clitandre (1672)]

There is no longer any shame in acting thus: hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues.
[tr. Van Laun (1876)]

There is no longer any shame in Hypocrisy; it is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues.
[tr. Wall (1879)]

There is no longer any shame in acting thus. Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues.
[tr. Waller (1904)]

Nowadays there's no longer any disgrace in it; hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues.
[tr. Page (1908)]

There's no shame in that any more nowadays: hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues.
[tr. Frame (1967)]


 
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