#deceive

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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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

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A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. ↗

— Madame Swetchine

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I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today. ↗

— Sarah Palin

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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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