François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
"87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."—2 TIM. iii. 13.]"
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"87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."—2 TIM. iii. 13.]"
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
"The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others."
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
"If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others."
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
"Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring."
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
"One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger."
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire."
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
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