Being betrayed Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free…

— Paulo Coelho

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the…

— Marston Bates

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

— John Locke

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is..

— Anonymous

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think…

— Bob Dylan

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so…

— Nawal El Saadawi

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face…

— Winston Churchill

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it…

— Albert Einstein

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being…

— Joan Robinson