#deceive

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deceived #never #ourselves

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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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

#being #deceived #deception #habitual #life

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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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#deceived #grow #grow up #trauma #up

Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'. ↗

— George Colman

#deceiver #gay #handsome #i #i am

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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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