#deceive

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

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And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation. ↗

— Plato

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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived. ↗

— Petrarch

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Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many. ↗

— Phaedrus

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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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