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“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offence.” Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist
“The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.” François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
“All warfare is based on deception.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion” Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
“politeness is deception in pretty packaging.” Veronica Roth, Divergent
“O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!” Walter Scott, Marmion
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken;” Jane Austen, Emma
“All that up to the present time I have accepted as most true and certain I have learned either from the senses or through the senses; but it is sometimes proved to me that these senses are deceptive, and it is wiser not to trust entirely to...” René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
“the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted...” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those...” Winston Churchill, The Second World War

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