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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.

    Life   Art   Order  
    William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36
  • One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

    "The Prince".
  • Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

    Trust   Believe   Men  
  • O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

    Wisdom   Truth   Lying  
    Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)
  • We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us today as Black Leaders representing the welfare of Black people. We won't follow any leader today who comes on the basis of political party. Both parties (Democrat and Republican) are controlled by the same people who have abused our rights, and who have deceived us with false promises every time an election rolls around.

  • Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

    Trust   Sarcastic   Men  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5804, e-artnow
  • We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

    Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.275, Cambridge University Press
  • It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1932). “Goethe's poems and aphorisms”
  • The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

  • We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

    Love   Life   Deceived Us  
    "A Happy Death" by Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard, 1972.
  • It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

    "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665-1678.
  • Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

  • Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

  • We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

    Life   Trust   Believe  
    Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.433
  • No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

    Trust   Nature   Men  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5804, e-artnow
  • Life is the art of being well deceived.

    William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36
  • Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

  • All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

    Plato   Men   Deceived Us  
    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

  • We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

    "'Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations' ('Essay on the Manners of Nations')". Book by Voltaire. Chapter CLXIII, 1756.
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