Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. - Molière

Good sense avoids all extremes, and requires us to be soberly rational. This unbending and virtuous stiffness of ancient times shocks too much the ordinary customs of our own; it requires too great perfection from us mortals; we must yield to the times without being too stubborn; it is the height of folly to busy ourselves in correcting the world.

que en toda circunstancia aparezca en nuestras palabras el fondo de nuestro corazón.

That is the usual strain of all your kind; They must have every one as blind as they.