Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is we think of them as we please that is as they please or displease us.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times but now I'm a little more savvy.

You may be deceived if you trust too much but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

The senses deceive from time to time and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

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

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too if he could.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works and men's own righteousness and.

A lyric it is true is the expression of personal emotion but then so is all poetry and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry differing from each other in essence is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

Let us not deceive ourselves we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

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

Deceive not thy physician confessor nor lawyer.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.