French Literary Quotes about "deception"

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Toute action est déception, toute pensée implique erreur.

Every action is disappointment, every thought involves error.

Raymond Queneau Le Havre 1903-Paris 1976 Le Chiendent Gallimard

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Dans la vie, des principes rigoureux donnent, dit-on, plus de déceptions que de joies.

In life, rigorous principles give, it is said, more disappointments than joys.

Euripide Salamine 480-Pella, Macédoine, 406 avant J.-C. Hippolyte, 261-262 (traduction Méridier)

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