"The most sure method of subjecting yourself..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
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“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.”
“Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.”
“There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.”
More on Self Deception
“It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.”
“For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.”
“We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.”
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“The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.”
“One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves”
“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”