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And 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 analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.


Plato


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Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.


Dejan Stojanovic


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You’re all alone. No one wants you anymore. How long did you think we would all stay? You’ve killed each and every person who ever loved you. Even your children won’t want you. They will see what you have done. You must be the first ward in history to treat your guardian so badly that he left you. Do you think your mistress will stay? No. Elizabeth will take what she wanted and then she will leave you too.


S.K.N. Hammerstone


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Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.


Dejan Stojanovic


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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.


Hannah Arendt


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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.


Plato


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Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.


Mary Astell


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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.


Abu Bakr


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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.


George Bancroft


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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.


Bernard Baruch


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