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No habit or
quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any
thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our
hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every
passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world
without them.
-- Bernard Mandeville
1670-1733, Dutch-born British
Author, Physician
Hypocrisy is
the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can
pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare
detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony,
be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist,
Playwright
For neither
man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that
walks invisible, except to God alone.
-- John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet
It is
impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so
express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When
a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of
his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things
he does not believe he has prepared himself for the
commission of every other crime.
-- Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American
Political Theorist, Writer
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Better to be
known as a sinner than a hypocrite.
-- Proverb
The wicked
work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to
heaven.
-- American Proverb
Sayings of American Origin
With people of
limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those
who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher
When you see a
great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may
depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.
-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
1834-1892, British Baptist
Preacher
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