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• Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

  Dante Alighieri

  True Love, Men, Self

  Dante Alighieri (2017). “The Banquet”, p.11, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Funny, Humor, Enemy

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• James says that you deceive yourself if you only hear the Word but do not do it. How many people live in this deception their whole life-hearing and hearing, but never even trying to do what they hear!

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, People, Deception

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• Never deceive a friend.

  Hipparchus

  Friendship

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• If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Hate, Suffering

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• We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.

  Mark Gottfried

  Basketball, Lying, Team

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• He's a little deceiving. He doesn't have a real good arm slot as far as trying to pick the ball up out of his hand. He made some pretty good pitches when he had to.

  Craig Biggio

  Real, Lying, Hands

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• The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Judgment, Senses

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• The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.

  Sol Stein

  Eye, Magic, Mind

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• What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag.

  Helen Fisher

  Sex, Honesty, Lying

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• No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Reason, Imitation

  John Ruskin (1834). “Modern Painters”, p.25

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• In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.

  Laurence Sterne

  Retirement, Book, Reflection

  Laurence Sterne (1811). “The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life”, p.139

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• A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Thinking, Vices, Veils

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• Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Doctors, Dying, Patient

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• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

  Demosthenes

  Real, Believe, Self

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• Their record is a little bit deceiving. I still think they are a very good team.

  Laura Halldorson

  Lying, Team, Thinking

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• Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

  Aaron Hill

  Art, Looks, Innocent

  Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.64

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• To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Artist, Essence, Practice

  Elspeth Huxley (2011). “The Mottled Lizard”, p.105, Random House

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• Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

  Marjorie Bowen

  Men, Fool, Bigger

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• whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself.

  Johanna Spyri

  Thinking, Done, Deeds

  Johanna Spyri (1927). “Heidi”

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• even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still. ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing me as a rock. Or is it I who deceive them and pretend that I am a rock when I am a river?

  Nina Berberova

  Rocks, Self, Rivers

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• We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

  James Vila Blake

  Truth, Men, Wish

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• Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.

  George Herbert

  Foxes

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.332

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• What can 'scape the eye
  Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart.
  Omniscient!

  John Milton

  God, Eye, Heart

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.540, Pearson Education

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• Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Reality, Deceiving Yourself, Conditions

  John D. Rockefeller (2003). “Random Reminiscences of Men and Events”, p.133, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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