One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
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53; Variant translation: One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.Franz Kafka
If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then who has written the rules of sorcery?
R. Scott Bakker
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
Jackie Mason
That house, whatever it was, was the embodiment of all the coldness in his mind. Harley said to himself: "Whatever has been done to me, I've been cheated. Someone has robbed me of something so thoroughly I don't even know what it is. It's been a cheat, a cheat.…"
Brian Aldiss
It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.
Lucy Stone
A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Kafka, Franz
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