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• Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

  C. S. Lewis

  Enemy, Looks, Letters

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• ...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.

  James Hillman

  Dark, Mirrors, Shadow

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• Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

  Fidel Castro

  Ideas, Revolutionary, Intention

  Fidel Castro (2007). “Fidel Castro Reader”, p.65, Ocean Press

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• What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I do not contain the will within the same boundaries; rather, I also extend it to things I do not understand. Because the will is indifferent in regard to such matters, it easily turns away from the true and the good; and in this way I am deceived and I sin.

  Rene Descartes

  Errors, Owing, Matter

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• I think maybe my greatest weakness is that I trust people too much. I'm too trusting. And when they let me down, if they let me down, I never forgive. I find it very, very hard to forgive people that deceived me. So I don't know if you would call that a weakness, but my wife said "let up."

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Wife, People

  Donald Trump's remarks at the third Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colorado, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Expectations, Cheated

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• The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Heaven, Ignorant

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4144, Library of Alexandria

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• I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

  Gregory Corso

  Dream, Men, Life Is

  Gregory Corso, “Writ On The Steps Of Puerto Rican Harlem”

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• And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Wise, Mean, Poor

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• When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of prejudice and fixed ideas, when all the time it is more likely that the machine which contains them is only an elaborate cement-mixer, and when the thinking is finished, those whirling thoughts are smoothed into the unchanged conventional mould and seeing them set solid enough to dance, to build, to travel upon, we would never dream of their first deceit, of the hope once roused by their apparently violent reorganisation.

  Janet Frame

  Dream, Thinking, Ideas

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• A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you.

  David Bronstein

  Time, Strong, Heart

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• Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Thug, Labour Movement, Political

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• One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Attachment

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.47, Penguin Books India

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• When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.

  Washington Irving

  Cheer, True Friend, Real

  Washington Irving (1840). “The Works of Washington Irving”, p.192

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• It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mistake, Men, Mirrors

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.

  David Hume

  Men, Decision, Miracle

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.88, VM eBooks

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• He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Breakup, Men

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.

  Hilary Mantel

  Thinking, Lines, Pages

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• The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Method, Cunning

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• There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

  Orson Scott Card

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Men

  "Treason". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1988.

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• Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Way, Pleasure

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• Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Blessed, Mind, Skins

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• We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Anti-Christ and so sadly to crucify the Lord afresh.... Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that this deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side.

  Frederick William Faber

  Powerful, Lying, Men

  Frederick William Faber (1861). “Devotion to the Church”, p.27

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• Then God came to the woman and said to her, "Why did you not keep the commandment?" as if He wanted to say, "At least you, say forgive me, so as to humble your soul and to receive mercy." Again, there was no request for forgiveness. She also answered, "The serpent deceived me," as if she wanted to say, "If the serpent sinned, where is my mistake?"

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Mistake, Humble, Humility

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• And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

  Plato

  Mean, Knowing, Words Of Wisdom

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