#deceive

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. ↗

— George Herbert

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

— Lord Byron

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The easiest person to deceive is one's self. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. ↗

— Camille Claudel

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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

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There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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Even good people are obliged to deceive. ↗

— Greg LeMond

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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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