It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives…

“Anyone who believes that new benefits make men of high station forget old injuries deceives himself.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

— Blaise Pascal

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence…

— Samuel Johnson

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

— Blaise Pascal

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it…

— Leo Tolstoy

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

— Luc de Clapiers

“If someone deceives and victimizes another, understand that he would do, at least, the same to you.”

— D William Manley

“Guard yourself from lying; there is he who deceives and there is he who is deceived.”

— Sextus

“Everything that deceives also enchants.”

— Plato

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

— Plato

In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

— Josef Albers

The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.

— Yair Lapid

Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few…

— Ivan Turgenev