#deceive

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

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In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived. ↗

— Ken Lucas

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But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly. ↗

— Clare Short

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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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