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• Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Men, Deceit, Ashamed

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• Although most friendships that exist do not merit the name, we can nevertheless make use of them in accordance with our needs, as a kind of commercial venture based on uncertain foundations and in which we are very often deceived.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Names, Foundation, Needs

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• Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.

  Judah the Prince

  Wine, Age, May

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• To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Men, Touching

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• It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Taken, Ignorance, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ignorance, Vices, Principles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.309

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• True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Greatness, Sovereign, Virtue

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1891). “Lamartine's Works ...”

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• We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Light, Two

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• Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, Morality, Function

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• Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.

  Socrates

  Art, Ignorance, Simple

  Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

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• Br Orson Pratt is in trubble in consequence of his wife, hir feelings are so rought up that he dos not know whether his wife is wrong, or whether Josephs testimony and others are wrong and do lie and he deceived for 12 years or not; his is all but crazy about matters... we will not let Br. Orson go away from us he is too good a man to have a woman destroy him.

  Jedediah M. Grant

  Crazy, Lying, Men

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• To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Heart, Justice

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• Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Doe, Occasions

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing.

  Jonathan Schell

  War, Optimistic, Winning

  Jonathan Schell (1987). “The real war: the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay”, Pantheon

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• Sometimes I think it's a lack of knowing the areas. Obviously, everybody knows that health is important so that's - but why was I not doing the right thing? Because I was deceived.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Knowing, Important

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour. Thus also the discerning mind carefully marks the virtues which he sees in any person. A mindless man seeks out the vices and failings ... Even if you see someone sin with your own eyes, do not judge; for often even your eyes are deceived.

  John Climacus

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

  Ben Macintyre

  War, Party, Deception

  Ben Macintyre (2010). “Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II”, p.239, A&C Black

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• The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Believe, Heart

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.570, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Trust, Believe, Men

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• The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Criticism, Praise, Knows

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• Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Art, Honesty

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.29, 谷月社

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• Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  People, World, Environment

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.4, Vintage

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• Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Perception, Age

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.206

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• What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Numbers, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If your mind has been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth I come in contact with your enemy and restore you to health and happiness.

  Phineas Quimby

  House, Mind, Enemy

  Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (19??). “Christ Or Science: Chapter IV, the Quimby Manuscripts”

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