mask

Kopjes Kattenoppas
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read
illustration: Andrea Ucini

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. — Victor Hugo

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. — Erich Fromm

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. —Lord Chesterfield

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