The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMost of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld