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The great
advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First
to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's
intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all
that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self
a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest
declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third
is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him
that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse;
but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of
speech to freedom of thought.
-- Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British
Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
No man is
happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as
necessary to our happiness as realities.
-- Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author,
Lawyer
The easiest
way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning
than others.
-- Pierre Charron
1541-1603, French Philosopher
Subtlety may
deceive you; integrity never will.
-- Oliver Cromwell
1599-1658, Parliamentarian
General, Lord Protector of England
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Man's mind is
so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than
to truth.
-- Desiderius Erasmus
c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
Who had
deceived thee so often as thyself?
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Tricks and
treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains
enough to be honest.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Unlike grown
ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
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