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“He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.”

— Joseph Heller

“If they were hypocrites they did not know it, and their hypocrisy had every chance of setting and of becoming true.”

— E.M. Forster

“And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Then appeared wisdom and shrewdness, and there ensued great hypocrisy.”

— Lao Tzu

“Let not the worst of men be found worse than they really are.”

— George Lawson

“We want to believe that there were better men once. That makes us think it could be that way again. But people don't change.…

— Brandon Sanderson

“strongest to make men do very bad things before they are yet, individually, very bad men.”

— C.S. Lewis

“I presume that RATIONAL men will excuse me for endeavouring to persuade them to become more masculine and respectable.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I mean this: we were right to agree that good men must be beneficent, and that this could not be otherwise.”

— Plato

“...above all things; to remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes...”

— Margaret Fuller

“Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.”

— Francis Mont