DOLMANCE — Without hesitation I say I know of nothing morenecessary in life; one certain truth shall prove itsindispensability:
everyone employs it; I ask, in the light of that, how a sincereindividual will not always founder in the midst of a society offalse people. Now, if 'tis true, as they declare, that virtues areof some usefulness in civil life, how would you have someoneunprovoked with either will, or power, or the gift of any virtue,which is the case with many persons, how, I ask you, would you haveit that such a personage be not essentially obliged to feign, todissemble, in order to obtain, in his turn, a little portion of thehappiness his competitors seek to wrest away from him? And, ineffect, it is very surely virtue, or might it not be the appearanceof virtue, which really bec
