Excerpt from The Works of Moliere, Vol. 5: Don Juan, Love Is the Best Doctor, The Misanthrope

But Moliere has not made the hero coarse or ribald his language is always well chosen 3 and although his morality may be offensive, his manners are never so. The style of his speech is generally masterly, often eloquent, and not seldom characteristic of his sneering, insolent, cruel, hypocritical feelings. The author sometimes borders upon almost forbidden ground, as, for example, when Don Juan, after having witnessed the surprising miracle of a moving and speaking statue, says There is really, something in that which I do not understand but, whatever it may be, it is not capable either of convincing my judgment, or of shaking my nerves.

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