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Explore the profound wisdom of great thinkers on the sting of betrayal. This collection features powerful quotes from literary giants and historical figures like William Shakespeare, Niccolò Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, George Orwell, and Martin Luther King Jr. Understand the nature of deceit and broken trust through their timeless words.

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00:00This was the most unkindest cut of all.
00:04William Shakespeare
00:08Men are so simple and so much governed by immediate needs that a deceiver will always find someone who will
00:14let himself be deceived.
00:17Niccolo Machiavelli
00:21All warfare is based on deception.
00:24Sun Tzu
00:28All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
00:33George Orwell
00:37The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the
00:44good people.
00:45Martin Luther King Jr.
00:50A nation can survive its fools, and even its ambitious.
00:54But it cannot survive treason from within.
00:59Cicero
01:02You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you
01:07cannot fool all the people all the time.
01:11Abraham Lincoln
01:15There is no more dangerous foe than a betrayed friend.
01:20Sophocles
01:23It is always Judas who betrays, never Peter.
01:27Oscar Wilde
01:31When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
01:36Maya Angelou
01:40Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
01:44Agatha Christie
01:48Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
01:55Voltaire
01:58The most dangerous thing in the world is a Christian who has been betrayed by another Christian.
02:04C.S. Lewis
02:08Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
02:13Benjamin Franklin
02:17Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.
02:20Aesop
02:23If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people
02:30who are doing the oppressing.
02:32Malcolm X
02:36Honesty
02:37Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
02:41Plato
02:44And, after all, what is a lie?
02:48Tis but the truth in masquerade.
02:51Lord Byron
02:52And, because of killing people who have been
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