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.]
Autore: François de La Rochefoucauld
![87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. <br /><br />[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.] - François de La Rochefoucauld](/static/img/quotes/849128.jpg)