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As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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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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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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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured. ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

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Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

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Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

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