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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON DECEPTION
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904, American author, lawyer)
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
Pierre Charron (1541-1603, French philosopher)
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658, British Parliamentarian General)
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Desiderius Erasmus (c.1466-1536, Dutch humanist)
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one -- but that is the best of all.
Desiderius Erasmus (c.1466-1536, Dutch humanist)
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.
Christopher Hampton (1946-, British playwright)
Life is the art of being well deceived.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
Hitopadesa (600-1100 AD, Sanskrit fable from Panchatantra)
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer (c. 850 -? BC, Greek epic poet)
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
Horace (BC 65-8, Italian poet)
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695, French poet)
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695, French poet)
It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
We are more humiliated by the least infidelity towards us, than by our greatest infidelity towards others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
We concern ourselves less with becoming happy than we do to make others believe we are.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801, Swiss theologian, mystic)
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th))
We like to be deceived.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
No matter how hidden a force is, it will attract some kind of resistance.
Native American Proverb (Sayings of Native American origin)
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Plato (BC 427?-347?, Greek philosopher)
If you want to totally avoid being deceived, get married on February 30th.
French Proverb (Sayings of French origin)
To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
Cardinal De Richelieu (1585-1642, French statesman)
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.
Francoise Sagan (1935-, French novelist, playwright)
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
Johann G. Seume (1763-1810, German theologist)
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Robert Southey (1774-1843, British author)
A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.
Sun Tzu (c 400-430 BC, Chinese military strategist, author of "Art of War")
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
John Tillotson (1630-1694, British theologian, Archbishop of Canterbury)
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
John Tillotson (1630-1694, British theologian, Archbishop of Canterbury)
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941, Russian poet)
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747, French moralist)
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747, French moralist)
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