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• I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

  Carl Jung

  Being Yourself, Soul, Desire

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• Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Path

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• Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Hero, Discovery, Next

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.260, Vintage

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• When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.

  Mardy Grothe

  Self, Deception, Self Deception

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• The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

  H. L. Mencken

  Son, Government, Long

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, Men, Vanity

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.120

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• One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do is to deny its poor public record... It is perfectly rational to play a risky game: what is irrational is to deceive oneself about the risk.

  Imre Lakatos

  Games, Play, Risk

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Lasts, Succeed

  Anthony Trollope (2009). “Miss Mackenzie: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.624, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God-- Naught else is worth believing. Though all my heart should feel condemned For want of some sweet token, There is One greater than my heart Whose Word cannot be broken. I'll trust in God's unchanging Word Till soul and body sever, For, though all things shall pass away, HIS WORD SHALL STAND FOREVER!

  Martin Luther

  Sweet, Believe, Heart

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• It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

  Jane Austen

  Vanity, Prejudice, Pride And Prejudice Pride

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.120

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• Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

  Matthew Henry

  Cost, Lasts

  Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1835). “A commentary upon the holy Bible: Romans to revelation”, p.393

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• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Deceiving Others, Romance, World

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• I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Chance, States

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.425, Psychology Press

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• Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ocean, Clouds, Darkness

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• If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Devil, Humans, Ifs

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• He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across the palace, and they'd ignored it. If he'd been stoic and denied the pain, the entire palace would have been in a panic already, Eddisian soldiers on the move. He'd meant to deceive them, and he'd succeeded. It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Pain, Moving

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• Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

  Ted Dekker

  Reality, People, Drug

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• And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.

  Patrick Ness

  Song, Promise, One Day

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• Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

  Emily Gould

  Meaningful, Marketing, Fiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

  John Irving

  Hurt, Deceived, Been Hurt

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• You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing you have no accurate assessment - you can't make an accurate assessment of where you fit and why. I consider our moving frontier in space as the anecdote to that downward trend.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moving, Thinking, Assessment

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and are certainly harder to bear. If I must deceive myself, I should prefer to stay on the side of confidence, for I shall lose no more there and shall suffer less.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mistake, Yield, Suffering

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

  Bram Stoker

  Century, Modernity, Mere

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.32, Zillmann Publishing

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• Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves are what's large. Step into the ocean or walk on Mount Tamalpais, and that kind of amnesia and self-centeredness isn't possible. Enter the natural world at all, you see existence emerge, ripen, fall and continue, and you can't help but feel more tender towards self and others. That summoning into the large and the shared is what poems exist also to do.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Ocean, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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