Quote by Bernard Mandeville
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor an

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

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If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters? – Bernard Mandeville

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Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. – William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. – Michel de Montaigne

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We are not hypocrites in our sleep. – William Hazlitt

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