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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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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. ↗

— Aristotle

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His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

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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 had deceived thee so often as thyself? ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. ↗

— Maimonides

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