Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men still have to be governed by deception.
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.
Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual than for a man to impute his actions to honorable motives when it is nearly demonstrable that they flowed from some corrupt and contemptible force.
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.