Deception

(220 votes)   Only when you have reached a solitude of stillness and see behind the disguise of desolation, your eyes open to nature's pure beauty.

Anonymous

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(159 votes)   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

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(130 votes)   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

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(129 votes)   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

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(117 votes)   The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(105 votes)   Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

Marquis De Vauvenargues
1715-1747, French Moralist

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(94 votes)   No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(94 votes)   The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Marquis De Vauvenargues
1715-1747, French Moralist

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(91 votes)   The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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(81 votes)   We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(77 votes)   Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(74 votes)   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

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(74 votes)   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

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(67 votes)   The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

Hitopadesa
600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra

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(66 votes)   To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

Cardinal De Richelieu
1585-1642, French Statesman

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