Deceived Quote by Petronius Download Open image “The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.” — Petronius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deceived Political Politics World
Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given,… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable. — Sophie Arnould Copy Share Image
There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the act of love is gross and brief and brings loathing after it — Petronius Copy Share Image
“The imagination will not perform until it has been flooded by a vast torrent of reading. - 27-66 AD” — Petronius Copy Share Image
“Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.” — Petronius Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have been deceived into believing prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We no longer need to beg or plead;… — Andrew Wommack Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
