Quotes About Distrust

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

But he could have been lying." "I don't know that he ever lied, Tyler. He was just a little stingy with the truth.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find. Niccolò Machiavelli, in a letter to Francesco Gnicciardini, May 17, 1521

Gardez-vous de vos amis : beaucoup vous trahiront par envie. D'autres se montreront gâtés, tyranniques. Un ancien ennemi que vous engagez sera plus loyal qu'un ami parce qu'il devra faire ses preuves. En fait, vous avez plus à craindre de vos amis que de vos ennemis. Si vous n'avez pas d'ennemis, trouvez le moyen de vous en faire.

Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical

When people seem to share your ideas exactly, be wary: they are probably mirroring them to charm you.

Thus it is plain that faults that are evident to the senses, gross and corporal, or otherwise notorious to the world, we know by our enemies sooner than by our friends and familiars

What do you do,' he said, 'if you devote your life to discovering criminals, and it gradually occurs to you that the real criminals are the people you work for?

Cosa si può fare, disse, se si dedica la vita a smascherare i criminali, e a poco a poco ci si accorge che i veri criminali sono quelli per cui si lavora? Cosa si può fare quando tutti ti dicono di non preoccuparti perché tanto non ci puoi fare niente ed è successo molto tempo fa? Adesso Charlie lo guardava in un modo diverso. Immagino che si perda la ragione. Oppure può succedere di peggio. La si può trovare.

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

A man who trusts everyone is a fool, Lews Therin said, and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools, if we live long enough.

Thieves are always the most careful of their purses.

Is it betrayal to betray a traitor?

I kept telling them I didn't know anything about it, but half of them seemed to think that I was lying, and the other half that I was hinting at something.

If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

As sure as peaches are poison.

Trust no-one, he thought bleakly. For an instant, he did not know if it was his thought or Lous-Therin's, but in the end he decided it did not matter. Everybody had their own goals, their own desires. Much the best to trust no-one completely except himself. Yet he wondered, with another man oozing through the back of his mind, how far he could trust himself.

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The Aelfinn are not evil, but they are so different from humanity they may as well be so. They are not to be trusted. —Birgitte Silverbow

The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.' " Another said, "The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.

Always remember that. There were enemies everywhere, and you never knew who.

Well, Thomas if you're not going to help, why'd you come down here (Andrea)? So I could cut off your head.

He may be a scholar, but he's first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was betrayed by his government.