The senses deceive from time to time and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too if he could.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works and men's own righteousness and.

A lyric it is true is the expression of personal emotion but then so is all poetry and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry differing from each other in essence is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

Let us not deceive ourselves we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.