This episode introduces virtue: the thing that a hypocrite claims to have, but unfortunately doesn't. Together with its arch-nemesis, vice, virtue has always been an important quality for human beings to know and understand. No discussion about hypocrisy can begin without first defining virtue.

Since their origins as the exemplary behaviors needed to follow or avoid in order to kickstart civilization, to their necessary evolution from ancient history until how we know them today, vice and virtue have always been the two most crucial factors in the making of a hypocrite.

So why do we have virtue? Why is it valuable? Why is virtue good and vice bad? And how does our pursuit of virtue set us up perfectly to judge (and sometimes become) hypocrites?

We'll be answering that and a few other crucial questions, with a little help from Ancient Greek classics like Homer, Protagoras, Socrates and Aristotle. Also French Classical era author François de La Rochefoucauld, who penned the clever yet relevant quote that serves as basis for this episode's title.