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• I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Money, Honesty

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.26, Modern Library

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• Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspirational, Trust, Betrayal

  "Apostolic Exhortation, the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World: Familiaris Consortio".

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• I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Lost, Torture, I Have Learned

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• We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, Betrayal, Keeping Promises

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.444, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.

  Antonio Porchia

  Time

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

  Jacqueline Carey

  Silence, Noise

  Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.555, Macmillan

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• The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

  Pema Chodron

  Essence, Self, Bravery

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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• The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Self, Mind, Infinite

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• Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

  Kim Chernin

  Giving Up, Lying, Long

  Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Vanity, People, Selfishness

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.190, Macmillan

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• Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

  James E. Faust

  Cheating, School, Self

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• Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sweet, Children, Pain

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• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Water, Environmental

  The Duke of Suffolk in King Henry VI, Part II (1590), Act III, scene 1.

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• Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

  Unknown

  Winning, Force

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• My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, “Where’s the bathroom?” and making theatrical looking-around gestures like a lost foreign tourist. But then, instead of finding the bathroom, I sneakily grab my coat and leave.

  Mindy Kaling

  Air, Exit, Tourists

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• No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Self, May, Satisfaction

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.72, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.

  Abbi Glines

  Hurt, Lying, When You Love Someone

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 2: Just for Now; Sometimes It Lasts; Misbehaving”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

  Louise Colet

  Art, Successful, Coquette

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• Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Trust, Peace

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• People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Stupid, Self

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• The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Success, Trust

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

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• Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Believe, Giving, Perception

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• Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

  Stephen King

  Pride, Self, Taught

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.

  Michael Connelly

  Beautiful, Sunset, Home

  Michael Connelly (2012). “The Black Echo”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Honesty, Integrity, Lying

  "The Ordeal of Mansart". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1957.

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