Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Deception

Quotes about: Deception

• Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Trust, Being Yourself

• We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deceiving Others, Deception, Tears

• You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deception, Trying, Fool

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Self, Deception

• A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Deception, Deceiving

• We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Deception, Enemy

• Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Men, Self

• It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deception, Deceiving, Easy

• The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Cheating, Men, Deception

• The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hate, Thinking, Deception

• In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Deception, Deceit

• The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Deception, Deceiving, Intention

• The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Deception, Use

• A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Men, Deception

• The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Vanity, Deception

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