"Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave." — C L R James

More Dissimulation Quotes

This quote is filed under Dissimulation Quotes, one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed. — Sun Tzu
• Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever. — Arthur Schopenhauer
• Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who… — Germaine Greer
• Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are… — Michael Foley
• Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. — Lord Chesterfield
• Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense. — Samuel Johnson
• The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it… — Maurice Blanchot
• The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. — Benjamin Disraeli
• It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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