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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How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves. – Thomas à Kempis

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The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. – Aesop, Fables

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We are not hypocrites in our sleep. – William Hazlitt

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Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. – J. Petit-Senn

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