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• But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Benefits, Littles, Endeavor

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• Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

  Lord Byron

  Unhappy, Literature, Sometimes

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• There is none deceived but he that trusts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Trust, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

  Camille Claudel

  Character, Devil, Mood

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• You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Knaves, Fool, Qualms

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

  Marguerite Duras

  Love, Men, He Man

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.125, Grove Press

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• 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

  Lying, Mean, Men

  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.486

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

  Samuel Johnson

  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

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• Life is the art of being well deceived.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Deceived Us, Deception

  William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36

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• Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

  Sissela Bok

  Liars, Lying, Deception

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.59, Vintage

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• Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

  Aristotle

  Hope, Philosophical, Youth

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• It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Trust, Betrayal

  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665-1678.

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Deceived Us, Succeed

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• All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Children, Growing Up, Trauma

  "'For me, England is a mythical place'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2005.

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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.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Art, Order

  William Hazlitt (1817). “The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners”, p.36

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• It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

  Publilius Syrus

  Deception, Tolerable

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• It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Deceived Us, Deceiving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1932). “Goethe's poems and aphorisms”

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• Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Deception, Thee, Thyself

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• I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Betrayed, Has Beens

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• Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Abuse, Balance

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• When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Breakup

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A very similar statement is found inWilde's playAWoman of No Importance, act 3 (1893).

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• Things are not what they seem.

  A. S. Byatt

  Things Are Not What They Seem, Seems

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• We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Sarcastic, Teaching

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1982). “Wilhelm Meister's Years of Travel or the Renunciants”, Riverrun Pr

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• Why was Christ so compassionate towards sexual sinners, especially women? Think of the woman caught in adultery. Think of the prostitute who wept at his feet. Could it be because Christ knew that these women, who had been deceived by counterfeit loves, were actually looking for him, the true Bridegroom?

  Christopher West

  Thinking, Feet, Catholic

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• I believe hundreds of Christian people are being deceived by Satan now on this point, that they have not got the assurance of salvation just because they are not willing to take God at His word.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Believe, People

  Dwight L Moody (1958). “Finding God”, p.25, Moody Publishers

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