Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Hypocrisy
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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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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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.
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Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
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The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author