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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. -- Aristotle
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. -- Taylor Caldwell
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. -- Sissela Bok
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. -- Marguerite Duras
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. -- Confucius
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. -- Emile M. Cioran
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. -- Rene Descartes
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. -- William Hazlitt
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. -- Giacomo Casanova
Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea! -- William Booth
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. -- Camille Claudel
Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor. -- Mary Astell
The world loves to be deceived. -- Sebastian Franck
Life is the art of being well deceived. -- William Hazlitt
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? -- Benjamin Franklin
My heart aches for America and its deceived people. -- Billy Graham
I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them. -- Charles Van Doren
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. -- Johann Gottfried Seume
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. -- Bernard Baruch
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. -- Oscar Wilde
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. -- Lord Byron
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. -- Rene Descartes
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. -- Frank Crane
Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. -- Sun Myung Moon
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. -- Simone Weil
I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived. -- Osama bin Laden
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
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? -- Joseph Butler
Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters. -- Michael Cadnum
In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life? -- Virginia Postrel
We like to be deceived. -- Blaise Pascal
The world wants to be deceived... -- Petronius
Who naught suspects is easily deceived. -- Petrarch
The world wishes to be deceived. -- Sebastian Franck
The spiritual consciousness is never deceived -- Billy Meier
One is never deceived; one deceives oneself. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
None are deceived but they that confide. -- Benjamin Franklin
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward. -- Abraham Lincoln
More dangers have deceived men than forced them. -- Francis Bacon
We are deceived by the appearance of right. -- Horace
Who would not rather trust and be deceived? -- Eliza Cook
There is none deceived but he that trusts. -- Benjamin Franklin
Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself. -- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived. -- Jonathan Swift
Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear. -- Bill W.
We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us... -- Leonardo da Vinci
Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals. -- Anonymous
Love believes all things and yet is never deceived. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. -- Martin Buber
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. -- Publilius Syrus
It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion. -- Marcus Terentius Varro
Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived. -- Luc de Clapiers
The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived... -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived. -- Ivanka Trump
Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable. -- Sophie Arnould
To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base. -- Plato
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. -- Francis Bacon
The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself -- Guy Finley
People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety -- Caleb Carr
The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism. -- Yasmin Mogahed
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived. -- Petronius
No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived. -- James Randi
Mind sees magic because it can be deceived when allowed by heart. -- Toba Beta
A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth. -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none. -- Charlotte Lennox
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived. -- Bill Johnson
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. -- Isaac Watts
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived. -- Said Nursi
Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived. -- Leonardo da Vinci
A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived. -- Ernie J Zelinski
A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived. -- Vernon Howard
We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived. -- John Irving
Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances. -- Gautama Buddha
It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive. -- Christina, Queen of Sweden
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. -- Oscar Wilde
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth. -- Lucy Parsons
No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses. -- Oswald Boelcke
We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion. -- Norm MacDonald
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. -- William Shakespeare
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy. -- Miyamoto Musashi
Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is. -- Vladimir Nabokov
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture. -- Arthur Helps
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived. -- Fidel Castro
The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat. -- Dejan Stojanovic
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. -- Oscar Wilde
He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss. -- Albert Einstein
No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here; -- William Shakespeare
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest. -- Casey Affleck
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. -- Samuel Johnson
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. -- Charles Caleb Colton
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. -- Alan Watts
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.... -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent. -- Francois de la Noue
To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe. -- Ed Parker
Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed. -- Henry Mackenzie
When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. -- Walter Russell
I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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