Hypocrisy
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Appearance and Reality Morality
"None, but that there is so great a fever on goodness, that the dissolution of it must cure it: novelty is only in request; and it is as dangerous to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous to be constant in any undertaking. There is scarce truth enough alive to make societies secure; but security enough to make fellowships accurst: much upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. This news is old enough, yet it is every day's news" Measure for Measure, Act III, Scene II, the Duke (aside) The curse of "goodness" is the greatest curse of all. We espouse "truths of goodness" that barely allow society to survive; we use them to curse our fellow man. Why? I don't understand, says Shakespeare (a riddle), but it is and always has been the way of the world. |