"Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.
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“It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.”
“They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.”
“Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.”