Better off Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

— Lord Byron

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

— Pierre Bayle

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

— George Santayana

The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not

— Gorgias

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

— Anonymous

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

— Moliere

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe…

— Immanuel Kant

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

— Benjamin Franklin

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

— Craig Stone