"se conserver dans l'estime de son Confesseur"

"to begin with the difficulty of confessing certain sins, you are aware it is of importance often to keep in the good graces of one’s confessor; now, must it not be extremely convenient to be permitted, as you are by our doctors, particularly Escobar and Suarez, 'to have two confessors, one for the mortal sins and another for the venial, in order to maintain a fair character with your ordinary confessor—uti bonam famam apud ordinarium tueator—provided you do not take occasion from thence to indulge in mortal sin?'"

     Pascal’s preening Jesuit in the Tenth Provincial, trans. M'Crie (GBWW, 1st ed. (1952), vol. 33, p. 72).  Original French on pp. 251-252 of tom. 5 of the Œuvres ed. Brunschvicg.  The relevant excerpt from Escobar is given on p. 244.