Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
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?
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.