#deceive

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. ↗

— Vincent Voiture

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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived. ↗

— Osama bin Laden

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But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly. ↗

— Clare Short

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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. ↗

— Sophocles

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Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also help someone to gossip about you. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. ↗

— Albert Camus

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. ↗

— Confucius

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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. ↗

— Simone Weil

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