Great Throughts Treasury

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Related Quotes

Joseph Sanial-Dubay

Sincerity is the face of the soul, as dissimulation is the mask.

Character | Sincerity | Soul |

Leonardo da Vinci, fully Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

Falsehood | Nothing | Purpose | Purpose |

Joseph Sanial-Dubay

The gibbet is a species of flattery to the human race. Three or four persons are hung from time to time for the sake of making the rest believe that they are virtuous.

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

Revenge |

François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Love | Power |