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Quote from François Duc de La Rochefoucauld,

17th Century French writer François de La Rochefoucauld wisely noted:
“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu.



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François Duc de La Rochefoucauld (more quotes by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld or books by/about François Duc de La Rochefoucauld)


(1613-1680) French author

Source:

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678), Maxim 218

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Hypocrisy, Vice, Tribute, Virtue, French

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