A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Deceit Distrust Generally Love

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

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

?ur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

Wes Fesler

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

Seneca the Younger

Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.

Samuel Johnson

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

T. S. Eliot

Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any of the sacred cows presented to us, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness. But then, it’s not self-deceit!

Anton Szandor LaVey

I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.

Ira Sachs

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

Benjamin Wiker

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

Nicole Krauss

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.