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?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The world loves to be deceived.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.