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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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• The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.131, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

  Fidel Castro

  Ideas, Revolutionary, Intention

  Fidel Castro (2007). “Fidel Castro Reader”, p.65, Ocean Press

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• It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mistake, Men, Mirrors

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

  William Faulkner

  Peace, War, Long

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Depression, Sight, Appearance

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.76, Booklassic

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• ...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Cat, Fur, Firsts

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.51, GENERAL PRESS

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• The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Men, Strategy

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Party, Deception, Flattery

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.439

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• Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong ... Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men. Don't be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers - they won't inherit the kingdom of God.

  Phil Robertson

  Sleep, Gay, Men

  "What the Duck?". Interview with Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Don't be deceived into thinking that by changing the external, the internal will be changed. It works the other way around; the path that needs changing is the one in your mind.

  Susan Jeffers

  Change, Thinking, Mind

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• As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doe, Atoms, Flavor

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• They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.

  Solomon Northup

  Fear, Prayer, Ignorant

  Solomon Northup (2016). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.135, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.

  Sophie Arnould

  Deceit, Miserable, Being Deceived

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