“It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving where in men find pleasure to be deceived. — John Locke Copy Share Image
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
What's worse than being alone? Being used, lied to, deceived, left behind and completely forgotten. — Kreayshawn Copy Share Image
Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Before I went to Escuela Caribe, my parents showed me the school's brochures featuring smiling kids at the beach or on horseback.… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
“philosophers have noted that people who habitually deceive finally fall for their own deceptions. This is the well-known phenomenon that confidence artists… — Joseph Agassi Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties… — George Sand Copy Share Image
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe. — Ed Parker Copy Share Image
He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
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