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First appearance deceives many. -- Ovid
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. -- Plato
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many. -- Phaedrus
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism. -- Alma Gluck
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
Color deceives continuously. -- Josef Albers
Reason deceives us; conscience, never. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hope deceives more men than cunning does. -- Luc de Clapiers
One is never deceived; one deceives oneself. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He that once deceives is ever suspected. -- George Herbert
A natural, polite smile deceives no one. -- Ogwo David Emenike
For love deceives the best of woman kind. -- Homer
Reason deceives us more often than does nature. -- Luc de Clapiers
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. -- Plato
Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell. -- Plato
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. -- Juvenal
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never. -- Phyllis Bottome
The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not -- Gorgias
There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement. -- Leonardo da Vinci
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. -- Jane Austen
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. -- Victor Hugo
The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live. -- Luc de Clapiers
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth. -- Otto von Bismarck
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave -- Blaise Pascal
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. -- Blaise Pascal
In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually. -- Josef Albers
The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives. -- Mahmoud Darwish
That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself. -- Johanna Spyri
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important -- Zbigniew Herbert
He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably. -- Philip Neri
The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams. -- Conrad Aiken
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays -- Francis Bacon
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence. -- Woodrow Wilson
Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too. -- George Zimmerman
A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
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The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives. -- William Wordsworth
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. -- Phaedrus
Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command. -- Thomas Hobbes
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me. -- Alexander Pushkin
No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true. -- John Ruskin
The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age. -- Harley King
It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong. -- Samuel Johnson
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities. -- T. S. Eliot
One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences. -- John Edward
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us. -- Jean de la Bruyere
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit. -- Norm MacDonald
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should. -- Jane Austen
Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it. -- Leo Tolstoy
Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well. -- Philip K. Dick
Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them. -- Ivan Turgenev
In fact, a case could be made that worrying about a problem actually prevents you from resolving it, because it deceives your mind into thinking that you're doing something when really you're not. -- Sarah Strohmeyer
A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh. -- Michael Bassey
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society. -- Samuel Johnson

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