I know of no quality so easy to counterfeit as piety, if conduct and life are not made to conform with it. Its essence is abstruse and occult; its semblane, easy and showy. (748)
Any man can play his part in the side show and represent a worthy man on the boards; but to be disciplined within, in his own bosom, where all is permissible, where all is concealed — that’s the point. (743-745)
~Michel De Montaigne, Essays: Of Repentance.
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