#deceive

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#deceived #envy #false #falsehood #fool

Who would not rather trust and be deceived? ↗

— Eliza Cook

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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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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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I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

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The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God. ↗

— Charles Stanley

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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. ↗

— Madame Swetchine

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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! ↗