“…simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.”
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“Man is naturally deceitful ever, in every way! ”
(tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, p. 326 http://books.google.com/books?id=Cm4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA326) <br class="br">Birds (414 BC) <br class="br">Variant: Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing.
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Démosthenés (-384–-322 BC) ancient greek statesman and orator
Third Olynthiac http://books.google.com/books?id=n4INAAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;the+easiest+thing+in+the+world+is+self-deceit+for+every+man+believes+what+he+wishes+though+the+reality+is+often+different&quot;&pg=PA57#v=onepage, section 19 (349 BC), as translated by Charles Rann Kennedy (1852) <br class="br">Variants: <br class="br">A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true. <br class="br">As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 255 <br class="br">There is nothing easier than self-delusion. Since what man desires, is the first thing he believes.
Simon Soloveychik (1930–1996) Russia writer and philosopher
Book 2 part 3, ch. 10
Pedagogika dlya vseh (Parenting For Everyone) (1977–1986)
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
This World is all a fleeting Show.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“My favourite ever headline was "Worksop Man Dies Of Natural Causes."”
Linda Smith (1958–2006) comedian
QI, Episode B.11
“And every man, in love or pride,
Of his fate is ever wide.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Nemesis
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Red Planet
Source: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 4, “Lowell Academy”, p. 49
“Every operation in nature is in the shortest, best ordered, briefest, and best possible way.”
Robert Grosseteste (1175–1253) English bishop and philosopher
De iride published in Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters, IX (1912) pp.74-75 as quoted in Carl B. Boyer, The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics (1959)