WIST Quotations Has Moved!ELMIRE: No, amorous men are gullible. Their conceit
So blinds them that they’re never hard to cheat.
[Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.
Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]
So blinds them that they’re never hard to cheat.
[Non; on est aisément dupé par ce qu’on aime.
Et l’amour-propre engage à se tromper soi-même.]
Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 4, sc. 3 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/moliere/78138/
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