Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.