#deceive

You’re all alone. No one wants you anymore. How long did you think we would all stay? You’ve killed each and every person who ever loved you. Even your children won’t want you. They will see what you have done. You must be the first ward in history to treat your guardian so badly that he left you. Do you think your mistress will stay? No. Elizabeth will take what she wanted and then she will leave you too. ↗

— S.K.N. Hammerstone

#skn-hammerstone #the-deceived #vessel-of-souls #ya #ya-horror

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. ↗

— Plato

#deceive #earth #equal #god #however

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor. ↗

— Mary Astell

#apostle #became #deceived #eve #greater

Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#enemy #even #faithless #your

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#deceived #desire #liars #share #those

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#deception #meant #requires #secrecy #while

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#being deceived #deceived #fear #quest #truth

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#deceiver #pleasure #twice

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured. ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

#assured #certain #construed #deceive #faculties

Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#blair #both #bush #carefully #combined