It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver..
Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere..
Art lies by its own artifice..
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception..
When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception..
Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely acce….
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writer….
Especially difficult when the first and best unconscious move of a dedicated liar is to persuade himself he's sincere. And once he's sincere, all dec….
If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on whi….
Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who ….
It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to i….
There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence.
The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness..
The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wea….
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth..
Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen..
Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak..