Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Priscus to Libanius, Antioch June 380
On Tranquility of the Mind
“Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.”
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.”
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 : In His Own Words (1916)
“Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.”
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.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 14.
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
