"87. - Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé 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.]"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"87. - Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé 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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