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La Rochefoucauld 087: Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other.
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Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aime Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."--2 TIM. iii. 13.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_087
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