Thanks Jerry and David! America has lost her Moliere!
"Alceste resents the compromises that society makes with the truth; he condemns the hypocrisy of the court, where everyone pretends to the loftiest sentiments and the 'warmest regards', while at heart each one is scheming for himself, is critical of all the rest , and uses flattery as a lever to position or power."
-The Age of Louis the XIV, Will and Ariel Durant
p. 121