The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.

[Le vrai moyen d’être trompé, c’est de se croire plus fin que les autres.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Maxims], #127 (1665-1678)

 
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