WIST - La Bruyere, Jean de | The Characters [Les Caractères], ch. 13 "Of the Fashion [De la mode]," § 21 (1688)

A man who parades his piety is one who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist. [Un dévot est celui qui, sous un roi athée, serait athée.] La Bruyère notes in the original this refers to a "faux dévot." (Source (French)). Alternate...