<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=483996" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>381</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">i</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many kiss the hand<br>they wish cut off</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ii</div><div style="margin:10px 0">we despise the pleasure of pleasing people<br>whom we despise</div><div style="margin:10px 0">iii</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lips are smiling, <br>but is the heart? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">iv</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A hypocrite is the kind of politician<br>who would cut down a redwood tree, <br>then mount the stump<br>and make a speech<br>for conservation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">v</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The value of an idea<br>has nothing to do<br>with the success<br>of the man<br>who expresses it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">vi</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is with pious fraud<br>as with a bad action; <br>it begets<br>a calamitous necessity<br>of going on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">vii</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every man alone is sincere; <br>at the entrance of a second person<br>hypocrisy begins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">viii</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wolf was sick, <br>he vowed a monk to be-<br>But when he got well, <br>a wolf once more was he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ix</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is a trick among<br>the dishonest to offer<br>sacrifices that are not needed, <br>or not possible, <br>to avoid making</div><div style="margin:10px 0">x</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For neither man<br>nor angel can discern hypocrisy, <br>the only evil<br>that walks invisible.<br>those that are required.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=483996" data-title="381 de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="i Many kiss the hand they wish cut off ii we despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom we despise iii The lips are smiling, but is the heart? iv A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the s..."></div> </div> </div>

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