#deceive

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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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

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Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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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

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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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

— Emile M. Cioran

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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. ↗

— Alan Turing

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