Philinte

No one knows better how to play off sentiments, glory in false grandeurs, deck himself with moral beauty, do honor to his nature in language, and pose like Alceste while behaving like Philinte.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

Alceste becomes Philinte, natures lose their firmness, talents are perverted, faith in great deeds evaporates.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

Corneille above the rest of us but the faculty of saying one thing with an Alceste or an Octave, and another with a Philinte or a

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

But I know another girl who got: State which you would rather have as a friend, Alceste or Philinte.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

It is for the character of Philinte, however, that Rousseau reserves all his spleen.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

Sbrigani, Don Juan is not Dorante, Alceste is not Philinte, Isabelle is not Agnes, Sganarelle is not always the same, Ariste is not Béralde nor

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

Happiness for Epicurus lay in "phlegm," as Philinte would put it; it lay in the calm of the mind that has rendered itself inaccessible to every emotion of passion, which is never irritated, never moved, never annoyed, never desires, and never fears.

Initiation into Philosophy ��mile Faguet 1881

It is for the character of Philinte, however, that

Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

Philinte is accommodating, and accepts the world for what it is; and yet, we might ask, is there not a more settled misanthropy in such cynical acquiescence than there is in the intractable virtue of Alceste?

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

Eliante (3 _syl_.), but Eliante tells him she is already engaged to his friend Philinte (2 _syl_), and so the play ends.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853