“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

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