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“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 warfare is based on deception.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!” Walter Scott, Marmion
“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.” François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
“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
“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
“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
“politeness is deception in pretty packaging.” Veronica Roth, Divergent
“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

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