#deceive

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. ↗

— Albert Camus

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It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived. ↗

— Ivanka Trump

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. ↗

— Voltaire

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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. ↗

— Simone Weil

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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism. ↗

— Alma Gluck

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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. ↗

— George Herbert

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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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