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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.

Deception

William Faulkner

WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

4.4 · 56 votes

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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Deception

Benjamin Disraeli

PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

3.0 · 59 votes · 126 reads

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

4.8 · 42 votes

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Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

Deception

Marquis de Vauvenargues

WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

3.1 · 63 votes

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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

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He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

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PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

4.3 · 36 votes

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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Deception

Jean de La Fontaine

PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

3.5 · 33 votes

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It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ''fronts'' people assume before one another's eyes, and the ''front'' a Writerputs on the face of reality.

Deception

Francoise Sagan

WriterFrench1935 · 20th century

4.0 · 21 votes

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Life is the art of being well deceived.

Deception

William Faulkner

WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

4.4 · 62 votes

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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

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Erasmus of Rotterdam

TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

4.8 · 58 votes

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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee
AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century
4.0 · 56 votes · 130 reads
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
4.3 · 21 votes · 31 reads
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
WriterFrench1715 · 18th century
3.3 · 48 votes · 85 reads
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century
3.5 · 64 votes · 36 reads
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century
5.0 · 5 votes · 179 reads
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
François de La Rochefoucauld
WriterFrench1613 · 17th century
4.9 · 25 votes · 199 reads
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin
PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century
3.0 · 25 votes · 186 reads
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
4.0 · 10 votes · 158 reads
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
4.7 · 37 votes · 36 reads
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
4.8 · 59 votes · 76 reads
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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.
Sir Thomas Browne
AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century
3.7 · 26 votes · 109 reads
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Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Benjamin Franklin
PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century
4.5 · 62 votes · 1 reads
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century
4.6 · 12 votes · 181 reads
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