A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

Tim Cook

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

Matthew Henry

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

Sidney Jourard

Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the mountains!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.