It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Even good people are obliged to deceive.
The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.