Self-interest is the most obvious reason for you to act like a hypocrite. Your personal cost is enough to outweigh the intention to act morally.

You want to act fairly until you are put on the spot and are facing your own personal consequences.

You are like a special type of liar who puts extra effort into disguising his misbehavior and sending false signals of moral superiority.

If your are going to lie, that is bad enough; try not to fool and distract other people by pointing the finger. 

Hypocrisy is the contrivance of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral beliefs.

Hence, in a general sense, hypocrisy may involve dissimulation, pretense, or a sham. Hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another.

In the poem ‘Au lecteur’ (‘To the Reader’) that prefaces ‘Les Fleurs du mal’, Baudelaire accuses his readers of hypocrisy and of being as guilty of sins and lies as the poet himslef:

If rape or arson, poison or the knife

Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff

Of this drab canvas we accept as life

It is because we are not bold enough!

Charles Baudelaire publishes his book ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’, leading to his conviction on charges of blasphemy and obscenity.

The principal themes of sex and death were considered scandalous for the period.

Charles Baudelaire also touched on lesbianism, sacred Love and profane Love, metamorphosis, melancholy, corruption, lost innocence, the oppressiveness of living and wine.

Charles Baudelaire was born into great expectations, anticipating a large inheritance. He studied law until 1840 but abandoned it to become a poet.

He led a wild and dissolute life in Paris, became a heavy user of opium and hashish, and contracted syphilis, which would kill him years later.

He ran through half his inheritance in two years and was later put on a strict monthly allowance.

His long-standing relationship with Jeanne Duval continued on-and-off, and he helped her to the end of his life.

His parallel relationships with actress Marie Daubrun and with courtesan Apollonie Sabatier, though the source of much inspiration, never produced any lasting satisfaction.

He smoked opium and began to drink to excess. He suffered a massive stroke in 1866 and paralysis followed. After more than a year of aphasia, he received the last rites.

The last two years of his life were spent in a semi-paralyzed state.