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Tag Name "Treachery" (83)

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Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Pierre Corneille
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Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.
James Mattis
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I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love which is lawless.
John Lyly
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
Demosthenes
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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
Joseph Heller
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The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.
Edmund Burke
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How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.
Margaret Atwood
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Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill
Fausto Coppi
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Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
Francis Bacon
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Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
Aeschylus
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If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends? Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.
Gena Showalter
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Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.
Alexander Cockburn
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What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.
George Orwell
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One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
Anais Nin
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.
Heinz Guderian
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
J. M. Coetzee
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