Betrayal Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Betrayal Cunning Incapacity Offspring Treachery
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Persecution and revenge, like courtship and toadyism, will not prosper without a considerable expenditure of time and ingenuity,” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Treachery has existed as long as theres been warfare, and theres always been a few people that you couldnt trust. — James Mattis Copy Share Image
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“Hesitancy is the surest destroyer of talent. One cannot be timorous and reticent, one must be original and loud. New metaphors, new rhythms, new… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“When the oppressed, downtrodden, outraged exhort one another with the vengeful cunning of impotence: "let us be different from the evil, namely good! And… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
God’s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope. — KM II Copy Share Image
If you leave someone for another person, don't be surprised if that person leaves you for someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.” — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“He returned her gaze, yearning for sentimental solace; love which emanated from a familiar source, mattered little how bedevilling. They shared an intimate moment,… — A. H. Septimius Copy Share Image
I was always here for you,you knew you could count on me and trust me blindly, and you knew that I would never tell… — Michael Hayssus Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Love comes exactly... To those who still hope, even though they've been disappointed. To those who still believe, even though they've been betrayed and… — Mizhan Copy Share Image
For some people, a one-night stand doesn't make any difference in a seven-year love affair. I don't believe the degree of betrayal is always… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
