A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.
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The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
If people feel misled or deceived, then sorry that they feel that way, but I believe that's more due to their definition and construct of race in their own minds than it is to my integrity or honesty, because I wouldn't say I'm African American, but I would say I'm black, and there's a difference in those terms.
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.
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