„Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„… the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I had never actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the sum of love is what you have to pay for it and any time you get it cheap you have cheated yourself.“
— William Faulkner
„Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate“
— Rick Riordan
„Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.“
— Stephen King
„Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald