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  1. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    The surest method of being deceived is to believe that one is cleverer than others.
     
    [Le vrai moyen d’être trompé, c’est de se croire plus fin que les autres]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶127 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶127]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #cheating #cleverness #craftiness #cunning #deceiving #deception #ego #fooling #outwitting #pride

  2. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    The surest method of being deceived is to believe that one is cleverer than others.
     
    [Le vrai moyen d’être trompé, c’est de se croire plus fin que les autres]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶127 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶127]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #cheating #cleverness #craftiness #cunning #deceiving #deception #ego #fooling #outwitting #pride

  3. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    The surest method of being deceived is to believe that one is cleverer than others.
     
    [Le vrai moyen d’être trompé, c’est de se croire plus fin que les autres]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶127 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶127]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #cheating #cleverness #craftiness #cunning #deceiving #deception #ego #fooling #outwitting #pride

  4. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    The surest method of being deceived is to believe that one is cleverer than others.
     
    [Le vrai moyen d’être trompé, c’est de se croire plus fin que les autres]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶127 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶127]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #cheating #cleverness #craftiness #cunning #deceiving #deception #ego #fooling #outwitting #pride

  5. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    The surest method of being deceived is to believe that one is cleverer than others.
     
    [Le vrai moyen d’être trompé, c’est de se croire plus fin que les autres]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶127 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶127]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #cheating #cleverness #craftiness #cunning #deceiving #deception #ego #fooling #outwitting #pride