Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.
I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.
If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you.
He that once deceives is ever suspected.
Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.
One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.
Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?
Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.
To deceive ones selfe is very easie.
Color deceives continuously.
A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.
Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.
The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
