You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the
greater dupe, he or you?
[Fr., Vous le croyez votre dupe: s'il feint de l'etre, qui est
plus dupe, de lui ou de vous?]
Jean de la Bruyere
Quotes , Source: Les Caracteres (V)
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We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to
falsehood.
[Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la fourberie ajoute la malice
au mensonge.]
Jean de la Bruyere
Quotes , Source: Les Caracteres (XI)
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
[Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
Jean de La Fontaine
Quotes , Source: Fables (II, 15)
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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein
men find pleasure to be deceived.
John Locke
Quotes , Source: Human Understanding (bk. III, ch. X, 34)
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He seemed
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 110)
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The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler
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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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The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
Pierre Charron
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
William Hazlitt
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The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
Hitopadesa
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You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
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It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.
Francoise Sagan
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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 Southey
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain
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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
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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
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