“Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
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French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769–1821Related quotes
“In a good cause hypocrisy becomes a virtue.”
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Priscus to Libanius, Antioch June 380
“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)
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
As quoted in USA Today (5 March 1988)
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
As quoted in Diversity : Leaders Not Labels (2006) by Stedman Graham, p. 224
