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Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice.
Chinese Proverb
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Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue.
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Virtue: climbing a hill; vice: running down.
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Virtue which parleys is near a surrender.
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Virtue, which parleys, is near a surrender.
Latin Proverb
The sin for which you repent is the father of virtue; but a virtue that you talk about, is the mother of sin.
Madagascan Proverb