Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. – J. Petit-Senn
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. – J. Petit-Senn
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. – J. Petit-Senn
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. – J. Petit-Senn
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, “Friendship,” Essays, 1841