Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

A certain portion of the human race / Has certainly a taste for being diddled.

We wouldn’t want to live in a world where we couldn’t be conned. Because, in effect, we would then be living in a world where we mistrusted or refused to trust anyone.

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.

The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

It's fun to play people who are flawed.

If you're innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world, and you want to succeed. People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey.

Nearly everyone who chooses to work for Donald Trump is disreputable in one way or another; Ali Baba didn't find 40 wise men in the cave. But to label everyone in Trumpworld a grifter misses important subtleties. It conflates grifters and grafters, and it ignores the crucial distinction between the two.

Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.