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Dupes Quote by Confucius

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“That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.”

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A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest…

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Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

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Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

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The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by…

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Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.

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Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

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The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

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When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in…

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Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and…

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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

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