The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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No. 257William Hazlitt
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What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt
Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.
Peter Kreeft
Hypocrisy is a Sort of Homage, that Vice pays to Virtue.
Thomas (writer) Fuller
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.
Albert Pike
The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy ... I don't dare continue.
Leonard Bernstein
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