Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge.
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
It's always the 'others' who are deceived.
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Nor when love is of this disinterested sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is equal disgrace in being or not being deceived. For he who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disa...
He said, speaking more to himself than to me: 'It was knowledge I sought. Knowledge which is clean and pure, far above the cheating and deceiving in which most men spend their lives.' And do you not find it,' I asked, 'this knowledge which you prize?...
I find it most offensive that the character of Reason, whom [ (author of the )] himself calls the daughter of God, should put forth such a statement as ... where she says by way of a proverb that "in the war of Love it is better to deceive than be de...
History deals with situations and figures not imaginary but real. It demands therefore a combination of qualities unnecessary to the poet or writer of romance - glacial judgment coupled with fervent sympathy. The poet may be an uninspired illiterate,...
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
The world loves to be deceived.
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.
