“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)
“Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?”
— Gordon R. Dickson, book Dorsai!
“Protector II” (section 19, p. 490)
Dorsai! (1960)
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