Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
Even good people are obliged to deceive.
The world loves to be deceived.