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Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.
Compromise is the door through which deception enters.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.
Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.
The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception
There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence
The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.
Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.
It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.
We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception.
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.
Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.
the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
Unfortunately, with addiction, there's manipulation and deception.
You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.
We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.
Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
You have the economic vocabulary turning into vocabulary of deception.
Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.