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Deception is making someone believe something that is not true

• Deceit: Behaviour that is meant to fool or trick someone.  Oxford Dictionary
• Deceive: to make someone believe something that is not true.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Deception: the act of making someone believe something that is not true : the act of deceiving someone.  Merriam Webster
• Lying,  Dishonesty,  Hypocrisy,  Honesty,  Integrity

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Usually in deception, the truth is hidden, denied or disguised …

• In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
• Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. James Cardinal Gibbons
• No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it. Nikki Rosen
• 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
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… but often, the best way to deceive is with some truth thrown in

• A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment… But the best camouflage of all – in my opinion – is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it. Max Frisch
• Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. Colton
• The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth. Ivan Panin
• We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth. Fulke Greville
• There are falsehoods which represent truth so well that it would be judging ill not to be deceived by them. La Rochefoucauld
• The best lies are always at least partially true. Laurell K. Hamilton
• The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time–and then shut up. Robert A. Heinlein
• It was so useful to lie with the truth. Tanith Lee
• The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie. Isaac Asimov

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Deceit is often disguised in honey

• He was justly accounted a skilful poisoner who destroyed his victims by bouquets of lovely and fragrant flowers. The art has not been lost; nay, is practised every day, by the world. Latimer
• Deadly poisons are often concealed under sweet honey. Ovid

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Deceit and deception is a common aspect of life …

• It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle. Fulke Greville
• Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. Johann G. Seume
• The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things. Bovee

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… and, most would argue, a most undesirable one

• It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. Cicero
• We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. Jean de la Bruyere
• Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. George Crabbe
• Hateful to me as are the gates of hell is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, utters another. Bryant
• I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned. George Washington
• Anything is better than lies and deceit! Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
• …even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonourable when it’s used for selfish or cowardly reasons. Jeanne Birdsall

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People are very susceptible to being deceived …

• Man’s mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. Desiderius Erasmus
• Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. Bovee
• Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn’t -it’s human. Desiderius Erasmus

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… and, in many respects, are only too happy to be deceived

• A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. Marina Tsvetaeva
• It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable. Sophie Arnould
• It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. John Locke
• Man loves the marvellous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed. Mackenzie
• No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Christian Nevell Bovee
• The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. Cardinal Carlo Carafa
• The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived. Oscar Wilde
• We like to be deceived. Blaise Pascal
• Yet still we hug the dear deceit. Nathaniel Cotton
• If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. Robert Burton
• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow
• An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood. Aldous Huxley
• Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. Martha Gellhorn

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One who deceives will always find those who will allow themselves to be deceived

• Men are so simple, and yield so much to necessity, that he who will deceive will always find him who will lend himself to be deceived. Machiavelli
• Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims. Honore de Balzac
• One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. Niccolo Machiavelli

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While it’s always possible to deceive some, it’s not possible to deceive all

• One may outwit another, but not all the others. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln
• You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough. Ed Rollins

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A common deception is to conceal our faults and true motives

• The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show. Colton
• Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. William Hazlitt
• Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides. Andrém Malraux
• We have few faults that are not more excusable in themselves than are the means which we use to conceal them. La Rochefoucauld

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A common deception is to put on a mask and not be who we really are

• A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself. Marty Rubin
• I believe in my mask– The man I made up is me. I believe in my dance– And my destiny. Sam Shepard
• No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. Hawthorne
• The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm. Sylvia Plath
• We are so accustomed to masquerade ourselves before others that we end by deceiving ourselves. La Rochefoucauld
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Lift your deception by lifting your mask

• If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false. Diderot
• Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one. Ashly Lorenzana
• You should not live one way in private, another in public. Syrus

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The art of pleasing is the art of deception

• The art of pleasing is the art of deception. Luc de Clapiers
• The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone’s comfort. Katherine Dunn

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Secrecy is the breeding ground of deception

• While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive. Sissela Bok
• Secret is the mother of all lies. Toba Beta
• People are secretive when they have secrets. Deb Caletti

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False modesty is a deception

• False modesty is the most decent of all deceptions. Chamfort
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All lies are based on deception …

• The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. John Ruskin
• All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. Robert South
• A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbor. Jonathan Swift
• Don’t tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear. Dr. Samuel Johnson
• Lying

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… even half truths

• A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies. Alfred Lord Tennyson
• A half-truth is a whole lie. Yiddish proverb

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All war is based on deception

• A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. Sun Tzu
• All war is based on deception. Sun Tzu
• Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. Thomas Hobbes
• How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. Karl Kraus
• It is in disputes as in armies; where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are. Swift
• It’s often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that’s a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. L. Neil Smith
• People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. Otto von Bismarck
• Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. Sun Tzu
• Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception. Niccolò Machiavelli

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Nowhere does deceit and deception exist more than in love and romance

• As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. Giacomo Casanova
• Betrayal can only happen if you love. John Le Carre
• Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. Oscar Wilde
• In love, deceit almost always goes further than mistrust. François de la Rochefoucauld
• Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.   Ninon De Lenclos
• Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing–that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart–is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love. William Henry Bulwer
• One is easily fooled by that which one loves. Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
• The deceptions which the two sexes play off upon each other bring as many ill-sorted couples into the bonds of Hymen as ever could be done by the arbitrary pairing of a legal matchmaker. Lord Byron
• The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. Oscar Wilde
• Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love’s tragedies. Oscar Wilde
• To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity. Soren Kierkegaard
• We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. Albert Camus
• When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance. Oscar Wilde
• When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you’re both lying to you! Susan Forward
• It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It’s probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique. John Scott
• I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love. Anne Rice
• Oh, what lies there are in kisses. Heinrich Heine
• Love is a game in which one always cheats. Honore de Balzac
• I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it. Anthony Trollope
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Love itself can be most deceptive

• Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you’ve never had it so good. David Salle
• And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating. Alberto Moravia
• Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. Al Goldstein

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The paradox is that deception destroys love

• Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love. Bonnie Eaker Weil

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It is better to be occasionally deceived than to be continually distrustful

• It is more shameful to distrust your friends than it is to be deceived by them. François de La Rochefoucauld
• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. C. Forbes
• Our distrust of another justifies his deceit. La Rochefoucauld
• Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain. Norman Macdonald
• There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats. Edwin Hubbell Chapin
• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Samuel Johnson
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There is no one more distrusting than one who has been badly deceived…

• It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies and is unvaccinated by suspicion. John Updike
• The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. Hitopadesa
• There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. George Eliot

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… except maybe one who habitually deceives

• The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. George Bernard Shaw
• Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive. La Bruyère

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Those who deceive often pay a heavy price

• A life of deceit is one of unmitigated torture–a living hell, which should deserve our pity for the unhappy beings who submit to it. It is surprising to what shifts and excuses those who lead so slippery a course are driven, in the vain hope to hoodwink the shrewd, with the painful necessity of laughing off exposures too glaring to be concealed–yet, when all is done, but to place themselves in the position of the stag which, thrusting its head into a thicket, believed itself to be unseen. In fact, there is very little hidden from society; and, as people of the world are generally willing to overlook much, the greater part of this manoeuvring, with its attendant misery, might be spared. Charles William Day
• Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence. Samuel Johnson
• Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them. Aaron Hill
• Deception is a cruel act… It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul. Donna A. Favors
• Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. E. V. Lucas
• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! Sir Walter Scott

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The first casualty of deception is sincerity

• A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity. Joseph Joubert
• I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind–of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another. Osamu Dazai
• Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that’s all. Tristan Bernard
• Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. Froude
• Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. Marquis De Vauvenargues

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The easiest person to deceive is one’s self …

• It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. Anatole France
• No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. Fulke Greville
• Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders. Demosthenes
• Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman
• The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self. Edward Bulwer Lytton
• We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves. Johann Wolfgang
• We are our own aptest deceiverJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
• We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artifices as we do our own selves. Schopenhauer
• You can fool yourself, you know. You’d think it’s impossible, but it turns out it’s the easiest thing of all. Jodi Picoult
• How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. Edward Frederic Benson
• It is as easy to deceive one’s self without perceiving it as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding it out. La Rochefoucauld
• Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison. Christian Nestell Bovee
• People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. James Baldwin
• When a person cannot deceive himself, the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. Mark Twain

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… because we have a tendency to believe what we want to be true …

• Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. Diane Arbus
• The easiest thing of all is to deceive one’s self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true. Demosthenes
• If anyone can show me, and convince me, that I have acted or thought in error, I will gladly change; for I seek truth, and no one was ever injured by the truth. But people injure themselves if they live with self-deception and ignorance. Marcus Aurelius
• Avoidance of self-deception is a matter of integrity not comfort. Orrin Woodward
• Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. Francis Bacon
• Men willingly believe what they wish. Julius Caesar
• The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. L. Mencken
• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot
• Human kind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. Eliot
• It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. William Makepeace Thackeray

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Deceiving others often ends in deceiving ourselves

• It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that … begins by deceiving others, will end … by deceiving himself. Charles Caleb Colton
• When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived. Dean Koontz

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Nothing deceives us more than our own perceptions, opinions and fears

• The most dire of all of life’s gruelling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions. Wes Fessler
• You can have no greater or lesser dominion than the one over yourself. The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Leonardo da Vinci
• Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. Rudyard Kipling
• Perception,  Opinion,  Fear

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Self-deception comes at a price

• It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves. Sir P. Sidney
• The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. Ambrose Bierce
• Reality denied comes back to haunt. Philip K. Dick
• Subconsciously he knew why it was happening, but a truth suppressed is a reality ignored. Luke Montgomery

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Shine the light on your self-deception

• The Light is more than some abstract, unknowable energy force. Light is Truth. If Light is truth, then darkness must be lies. Each and every lie we tell to ourselves and others casts the shadow of separation upon us. Every time even the most minor deception is revealed and the truth is made known we are re-united with the Light. So, Let there be Light. Those are the words by which you can create your own magnificent world. Renee Bledsoe

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Rise above the deceptions of your mind

• Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self- created and self- imposed owing to ignorance. Sivananda Saraswati

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Meditation is a great way to untangle self-deceptions

• Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self- deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes. Pema Chodron
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Appearances can deceive

• Appearances often are deceiving. Aesop
• Gold all is not that doth golden seem. Spenser
• People trust their eyes above all else – but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there. Zoë Marriott
• The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions. Kathleen Hall Jamieson
• Your eyes can deceive you; don’t trust them. Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are. Jim Butcher
• Things are not always what they seem; first appearances deceive many. Phædrus

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Religions can deceive

• God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. Aeschylus
• In every age, it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People. Canton
• For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception. Bernard Katz
• Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. Al Goldstein
• Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanour. Sigmund Freud
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Pleasures can deceive; especially in the promises they make

• The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them. Madame de Lambert
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Facts can deceive

• Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain
• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. Arthur Conan Doyle
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Photographs can deceive

• I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs. Errol Morris
• The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. Harold Evans
• While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph. Lewis Hine
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Governments can deceive – and often do

• Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. Edward Kennedy
• Men still have to be governed by deception. Georg C. Lichtenberg
• The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie. George Deukmejian
• The law requires a paper towel ad to be scrupulously honest, but allows political candidates to lie without reproach. What’s wrong with this picture? Jef I. Richards
• The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function. Glenn Greenwald
• Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. Henry A. Wallace
• When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. Euripides
• Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophesies come true, but they can lie and make their lies come true. Eric Hoffer
• The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy. Thomas S. Monson
• The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them. Elena Gorokhova

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The Internet can deceive

• The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. Peter Singer
• The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm. Sylvia Plath

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It is always a pleasure to deceive the deceiver

• It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. Jean La Fontaine

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Deceit is a habit often started in childhood and practised on parents

• For he who has acquired the habit of lying or deceiving his father, will do the same with less remorse to others. I believe that it is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect, and by gentleness, than by fear. Terence.
• He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others. Horace
• What does the truth matter? Haven’t we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! Georges Bernanos
• Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. Elias Canetti

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The easiest way to be deceived is to believe you’re more cunning than others

• The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. François de La Rochefoucauld
• The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. Pierre Charron
• You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else. François de La Rochefoucauld

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The female gender is more apt to deceive – or is it?

• Wiles and deceit are female qualities. Aeschylus
• Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman’s quality. Pierre Corneille
• A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself. Ninon de Lenclos.
• As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other. Giacomo Casanova
• Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up. Helen Cross
• I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely—to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double- dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving. Thomas Moore
• The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesty, —woman has each of these but once. When lost, she must simulate them the rest of her life. Rétif de la Bretonne
• Men are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to. I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. Tim Allen
• Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off. Natalie Portman

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• How ’bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail. Jennifer Salaiz
• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked, and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. Oscar Wilde
• There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. Martial
• Letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in. Charles Martin

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