Deceiver Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli Download Open image “It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.” — Niccolo Machiavelli ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deceiver Pleasure
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. — John Locke Copy Share Image
It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable. — Sophie Arnould Copy Share Image
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Anyone who believes that new benefits make men of high station forget old injuries deceives himself.” — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed,… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming,… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the… — Hetty King Copy Share Image
Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
