“2982. It is my own Fault, if I am deceived by the same Man twice.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti
“Unless the gods deceive my mind,
That man is forging fetters for himself.”
Theognis of Megara (-570–-485 BC) Greek lyric poet active in approximately the sixth century BC
Source: Elegies, Lines 539-540, as translated by Dorothea Wender.
