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"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on deception
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"The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others."

Charron, Pierre on deception
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"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will."

Cromwell, Oliver on deception
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"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."

Erasmus, Desiderius on deception    Share

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deception
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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deception
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"Life is the art of being well deceived."

Hazlitt, William on deception    Share

"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others."

Hazlitt, William on deception    Share

"The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself."

Hitopadesa on deception    Share

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

Homer on deception
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"He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others."

Horace on deception
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"To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified."

James, William on deception    Share

"I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him."

Johnson, Samuel on deception    Share

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"It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

La Fontaine, Jean De on deception
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"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on deception    Share

"The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on deception    Share

"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."

Lincoln, Abraham on deception
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"We like to be deceived."

Pascal, Blaise on deception    Share

"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment."

Plato on deception
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"Every cloud has a silver lining."

Proverb on deception
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"To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings."

Richelieu, Cardinal De on deception    Share

"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's eyes, and the front a writer puts on the face of reality."

Sagan, Francoise on deception    Share

"Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived."

Seume, Johann G. on deception    Share

"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night."

Shakespeare, William on deception
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"Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth."

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"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things."

Southey, Robert on deception
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"The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent."

Tillotson, John on deception
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"The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user."

Tillotson, John on deception    Share

"A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths."

Tsvetaeva, Marina on deception    Share

"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on deception
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"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."

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"They deceive themself and thus us; merchants and tycoons of the world. Evil has gone from bad to worse for a worthless reward. "

Dye, James on deception    Share

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