A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Cheated Cunning More Others Self Sure Than Think Way

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

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Pierre Charron

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

Allan Sherman

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

Samuel Johnson

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Claude Bissell

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

Benjamin Franklin

I've never cheated or been cheated upon. I've seen my parents together and secure. So I feel the same way. Infidelity stems from low self-esteem. You want to cheat when you don't feel good about yourself.

Preity Zinta

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.

Patti Smith

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

Don DeLillo

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.