Molière also uses Cléante to teach how important moderation is. Cléante calls Orgon's attention to the folly of his extreme actions by telling him: “Listen to yourself! You're exaggerated, / You're getting carried away again. Enough. / "Moderation". Is it a word you know? / I think you've learned it, but then you go away” (5.1.37-40). Orgon not only went to the extreme of believing in Tartuffe, but after learning the truth, he went to the extreme of not believing in anyone. Cléante responds to Orgon's reaction to the religion that is the cause of all his problems by questioning: “. . . Instead of changing your ways, you turned / Like this. [Snaps fingers] Attacking the holy men who have earned / the right to stand among the true believers. / So now all the saints are vile deceivers?" (5.1.45-48). Molière demonstrates with these lines that it must be recognized that there are truly devout religious men in the world, even if there are men like Tartuffe who are religious impostors and take advantage of faith to deceive others. The character of Tartuffe represents how Satan deceives people into following him. In the Bible, Jesus tells his followers that Satan wants to deceive and turn people away from him was that of