“Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.”
Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer
Vol. 4, pt. 2, translated by W.P.Dickson.
The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 2
“Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu.
Maxim 218.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.”
Albert Pike book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. III : The Master, p. 73
“2580. Hypocrisy is a Sort of Homage, that Vice pays to Virtue.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.”
John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian
Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704) French serman writer
as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 137
“No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.”
Source: Germania (98), Chapter 19
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 257
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Source: Selected Essays, 1778-1830
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
Epode, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
“Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.”
Franz Kafka book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
