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— Jean de La Fontaine"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]"
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Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.
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False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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