
“I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.”
Misc.
Source: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 13 (p. 136)
“I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.”
Misc.
“1090. Cheat me in the Price, but not in the Goods.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise.”
Más vale ser engañado en el precio que en la mercadería.
Maxim 157 (p. 89)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
“You know the Devil is your enemy but you do not deal with him as such.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 28
Some Reasons Why (1881)
Context: The believer in the inspiration of the Bible is compelled to say, that there was a time when slavery was right, when women could sell their babes, when polygamy was the highest form of virtue, when wars of extermination were waged with the sword of mercy, when religious toleration was a crime, and when death was the just penalty for having expressed an honest thought. He is compelled to insist that Jehovah is as bad now as he was then; that he is as good now as he was then. Once, all the crimes that I have mentioned were commanded by God; now they are prohibited. Once, God was in favor of them all; now the Devil is their defender. In other words, the Devil entertains the same opinion to-day that God held four thousand years ago. The Devil is as good now as Jehovah was then, and God was as bad then as the Devil is now.
“Woman to Devil) I want to refinance my soul. (Devil) You’re going to take a bath on points. (p.78”
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