Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.
François de La Rochefoucauld · The source reads: “L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend á la vertu. Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.”
François de La Rochefoucauld · The source reads: “L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend á la vertu. Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.”
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François de La Rochefoucauld · The source reads: “C'est une grande habiletè que de savoir cacher son habiletè. The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld · The source reads: “Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui. We are all strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.”
François de La Rochefoucauld · The best known of the Maxims.
More Wisdom Quotes
The Bible · The source reads: “O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man: for there is no help in them.” · Psalm 146:3. The familiar King James wording; the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations gives the Book of Common Prayer psalter.
The Bible · The source reads: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do thereafter; the praise of it endureth for ever.” · Psalm 111:10. The familiar King James wording; the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations gives the Book of Common Prayer psalter.
The Bible · Psalm 90:12
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