Being deceived Quote by Horace

“…he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.”

— Machiavelli Niccolo

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

— Charles Caleb Colton

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is…

— William Faulkner

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The Point of Honor in Deception.—In all great deceivers one thing is noteworthy, to which they owe their power. In the actual act of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.

— George Herbert

“The Father of Lies never lays simple plans,”

— Robert Jordan

He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“the easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself, for what a man wishes, he generally believes to be true!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule.

— Rafael Trujillo

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more…

— Alexander Pope

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

— Benjamin Franklin