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He who does not know how to dissemble, knows not how to reign.

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Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) as "He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign."

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When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.

Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait régner.

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