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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

[Quand les vices nous quittent, nous nous flattons de la créance que c’est nous qui les quittons.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶192 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶192 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)] | WIST Quotations

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. [Quand les vices nous quittent, nous nous flattons de la créance que c’est nous qui les quittons.] Present in the 1st (1665) edition. In that version and the manuscript, the latter part read "... nous voulons…

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Wisdom in Space May 22

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his cash flow depends on his not understanding it.
-- Paul Krugman

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Seth Abrikoos May 19

🔥 #SelfDeception heeft hun nieuwe album One Of Us én de gloednieuwe videoclip voor “BREAK!” gereleased.🎥
💿 Check het #BrothersinRAW item dat ik er over schreef via:
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Metal Insider May 15

To celebrate the release of their new album "One Of Us," Self Deception share 8 of their favorite modern metal acts.

Details: https://metalinsider.net/guest-blog/self-deception-share-8-favorite-modern-metal-acts-to-celebrate-new-album-release

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Self Deception share favorite modern metal bands

Self Deception are celebrating the release of their new album, One Of Us by teaming up with Metal Insider to highlight some of their favorite modern metal acts.

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WIST Quotations May 15

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Solitude is the climax of the negative virtues. When we go to bed after a solitary day we can tell ourselves that we have not been unkind nor dishonest nor untruthful; and the negative virtues are agreeable to that dangerous faculty we call the conscience. That they should ever be admitted for a part of virtue is what I cannot explain. I do not care two straws for all the nots.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 4.6 “Solitude and Society”

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Stevenson, Robert Louis - Essay (1880-01/02?), "Reflections and Remarks on Human Life," § 4.6 "Solitude and Society" | WIST Quotations

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Brewminate May 13

Hypocrisy is not only something “bad people” do. 🪞🔥

It is what happens when we protect our contradictions instead of facing them. Everyone has gaps between values and behavior.

The difference is whether we notice, admit, and repair them.

#Ethics #SelfDeception #MoralHypocrisy #Brewminate

https://brewminate.com/moral-hypocrisy-self-deception/

Why We Are All Moral Hypocrites

Explore why moral hypocrisy is deeply human, how self-interest shapes judgment, and what honest reflection can do to narrow the gap.

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🤘 The Metal Dog 🤘May 12

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Sweden’s SELF DECEPTION Drop New Single “Break!”; Official Music Video

https://bravewords.com/news/swedens-self-deception-drop-new-single-break-official-music-video/

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A quotation from Montaigne

We readily acknowledge in others an advantage in courage, in bodily strength, in experience, in agility, in beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to no one. And the arguments that come from simple natural reasoning in others, we think we would have found if we had merely glanced in that direction.

[Nous reconnoissons aysément és autres, l’advantage du courage, de la force corporelle, de l’experience, de la disposition, de la beauté: mais l’advantage du jugement; nous ne le cedons à personne: Et les raisons qui partent du simple discours naturel en autruy, il nous semble qu’il n’a tenu qu’à regarder de ce costé-là, que nous ne les ayons trouvees.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Frame (1943)]

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