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• I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Because I Can, Affected

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.

  Karl Marx

  Circles, Understanding, Details

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• Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hate, Forgiving, Blame

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself

  Guy Finley

  Real, Real Love, Want

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from May 02, 2012

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• [I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Men, What Matters

  Alfred de Musset, Paul de Musset (1908). “The confession of a child of the century tr. by Kendall Warren”

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• Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Giving, Bullets

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

  Bob Dylan

  Education, Thinking, Noble

  Song: My Back Pages, Album: Another Side Of Bob Dylan

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• For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them groan beneath the yoke imposed on them by men who in very large part are strangers to the real interests of the country. We recognize that many others were deceived by fallacious hopes. We blame only the system with its authors and abettors who considered Russia the best field for experimenting with a plan elaborated years ago, and who from there continue to spread it from one of the world to the other.

  Pope Pius XI

  Country, Real, Men

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• Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what was forbidden. It was in his power 'to be united to the Lord and become one spirit with God...' (I Cor. 6:15). But Adam was deceived and chose to cut himself off voluntarily from God's happy end for him, preferring by his own free choice to be drawn down to the earth (cf. Gen. 2:17) than to become God by grace.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Cutting, Cfs

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• Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Way, Pleasure

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• Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Blessed, Mind, Skins

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• We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Anti-Christ and so sadly to crucify the Lord afresh.... Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that this deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side.

  Frederick William Faber

  Powerful, Lying, Men

  Frederick William Faber (1861). “Devotion to the Church”, p.27

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• Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.

  Isaac Watts

  Lying, Wicked, Way

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• Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.

  Bill W.

  Fear, Self, Perfect

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• The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Method, Cunning

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• It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Falsity

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• The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Trust, Trust Others

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• I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Running, Hate, Thinking

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• Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.

  Cato the Younger

  Men, Tyrants, People

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• There are some whose Karma is such as to enable them to develop the purely spiritual faculties first of all -- to overleap the astral plane for the time, as it were; and when afterwards they make its acquaintance they have, if their spiritual development has been perfect, the immense advantage of dipping into it from above, with the aid of a spiritual insight which cannot be deceived and a spiritual strength which nothing can resist.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Karma, Spiritual, Perfect

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• ... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

  Catharine Beecher

  Intelligent, Innocence And Experience, Tools

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• I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Men, Proud, Deceiver

  "L'Heptaméron". Sixth Day, Novel LI (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.

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• Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Years, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.160, Harvard University Press

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• The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Heaven, Ignorant

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4144, Library of Alexandria

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• I think maybe my greatest weakness is that I trust people too much. I'm too trusting. And when they let me down, if they let me down, I never forgive. I find it very, very hard to forgive people that deceived me. So I don't know if you would call that a weakness, but my wife said "let up."

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Wife, People

  Donald Trump's remarks at the third Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colorado, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2015.

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