#deceive

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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

— Bernard Baruch

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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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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Some people in your life Touch you so very deeply That you drown totally in that depth. ↗

— Amit Abraham

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