{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw29.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw29.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw29.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nDeceit does more harm to the deceitful than to the deceived.\nIf a man commit these three things they will\nrise against him in judgment and punishment\u2014aggression, perfidy, and deceit.\nTo be true to the perfidious is perfidy, and to deceive the deceitful is lawful.\nIn deceiving your neighbour be more wary than when he is trying to deceive you.\nWhen one would deceive you, and you feign to be deceived, you have deceived him.\nHe who would deceive one who cannot be deceived is only deceiving himself.\nHe who allows himself to be deceived by what his enemy says is the greatest enemy to himself.\nA wise man neither deceives nor is deceived.\nIf a man believe in a stone it will do him good.\nSelf-deception is one of the forms of folly.\nMost men think well of themselves, and this is self-delusion.\nVain desires are rarely realised, but they may give comfort in sorrow or pleasure in empty hope.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Deceit","type":"page"}