HYPOCRISY

Hypocrisy will serve as well

To propagate a church, as zeal;

As persecution and promotion

Do equally advance devotion:

So round white stones will serve, they say,

As well as eggs to make hens lay.

—Samuel Butler.

There is no vice so simple, but assumes

Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

—Shakespeare.

Thus 'tis with all—their chief and constant care

Is to seem everything but what they are.

—Goldsmith.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie;

A fault which needs it most grows two thereby.

—Herbert.