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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva books
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
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William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt books
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain books
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21 votes
Every cloud has a silver lining.
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Proverb
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Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
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Marquis De Vauvenargues
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare books
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
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Homer
Homer books
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Jean De La Fontaine
Jean De La Fontaine books
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61 votes
Life is the art of being well deceived.
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William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt books
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus books
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Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
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Johann G. Seume
Johann G. Seume books
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell books
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Marquis De Vauvenargues
Marquis De Vauvenargues books
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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
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John Tillotson
John Tillotson books
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater books
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The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
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Pierre Charron
Pierre Charron books
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The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
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Hitopadesa
Hitopadesa books
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Francois De La Rochefoucauld books
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14 votes
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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William James
William James books
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To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
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Cardinal De Richelieu
Cardinal De Richelieu books
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin books
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe books
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe books
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We like to be deceived.
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal books
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
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Plato
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31 votes
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
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Mark Twain
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Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin books
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