Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

伪善可以在它的承诺中变得华丽,因为从不打算超越承诺,它不需要付出任何代价。

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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.

认为伪善是罪恶的罪恶是如此合情合理的原因在于,除了这一种罪恶外,其他所有罪恶的背后都隐藏着正直。的确,只有犯罪和罪犯才使我们面对极端邪恶的困惑;但是只有伪君子才真正腐败到极点。

The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

唯一不能原谅的恶习是虚伪。伪君子悔改本身就是伪善。