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"He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave."
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"Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging."

"Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate."

"He who acquired all his wealth by 'being at the right place at the right time' is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his 'being at the wrong place at the wrong time.'"

"Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that."

"Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments."

"It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being a human being. Any man who thinks himself to be free of hypocrisy while committed to cherry-picking others for such, I am confident, the Almighty can prove to him a great deal of his own hypocrisy even beyond his earthly comprehension."

"Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy."
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"The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."

"Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever."

"That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow."

"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind."

"From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God."

"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."

"Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free."

"So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken."
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