"The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought."

Bacon, Francis · Deception · 1 fans >>
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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 · Deception · 2 fans >>
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"The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others."

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"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will."

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"Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth."

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

Franklin, Benjamin · Deception · 5 fans >>
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

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"Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves."

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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

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"I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die."

Hampton, Christopher · Deception · 2 fans >>
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