The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Our pride rather than our virtue criticizes the faults of others We reprove our friends less to correct their faults than to show that weourselves are free of them.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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