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 wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven. – Proverb

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We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. – Bertrand Russell

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We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. – G. K. Chesterton

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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. – Baltasar Gracian

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Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. – Redd Foxx

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I dont want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesnt sing, dance or tell jokes, does he? – Ian St. John

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