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Quotes about deception
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? (Bovee Christian Nevell)
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
Life is the art of being well deceived. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
Every cloud has a silver lining. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
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. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. (Bovee Christian Nevell)
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