The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHumility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld