Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
On Tranquility of the Mind
“In a good cause hypocrisy becomes a virtue.”
Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Priscus to Libanius, Antioch June 380
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“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)
“Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“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
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 14.
Freeman Dyson (1923) theoretical physicist and mathematician
Disturbing the Universe (1979)
Context: A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad. <!-- Pt. 1, Ch. 4
James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)