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is a kind of mourning for the humiliation at not having deserved the other's trust.

When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust. Cesare Pavese

is always self-deception. One is never deceived... one deceives oneself.

One is never deceived... one deceives oneself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is beneficial in that, first, it lays asleep opposition, second it reserves for oneself a fair retreat in case of failure, and third it opens oneself to the discovery of the other's mind insofar as opposition is not provoked.

The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse... but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought. Francis Bacon

is detestable in all things but in the conduct of war where it is laudable and honorable.

Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable... and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force. Niccolo Machiavelli

is so bitterly difficult to be on the receiving end of because those who deceive us think they are cleverer than we are.

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is not always bad. Man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is a thing we do not like to admit to having been exposed to. It is far easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. Mark Twain

is in our very nature. Man did not acquire speech in order to reveal his thoughts but in order to conceal them.

Talleyrand's famous statement that man did not acquire speech in order to reveal his thoughts but in order to conceal them contains a profound irony about the world and from the angle of political prudence corresponds entirely to another genuinely diplomatic principle: mundus vult decipi, decipiatur ergo [the world wants to be deceived... therefore let it be deceived].

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