Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.
Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.
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