• Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every man alone is sincere.
 At the entrance of a second person,
 hypocrisy begins.
 We parry and fend the approach
 of our fellow-man by compliments,
 by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.
 We cover up our thought from him
 under a hundred folds.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics