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The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
~ Pierre Charron ~
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
~ William Hazlitt ~
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
~ Hitopadesa ~
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
~ Jean De La Fontaine ~
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld ~
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
We like to be deceived.
~ Blaise Pascal ~
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.
~ Francoise Sagan ~
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
~ William Shakespeare ~
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
~ Robert Southey ~
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
~ Mark Twain ~
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
~ Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
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