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One may outwit another, but not all the others.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

Where the lion's skin falls short it must be eked out with the fox's.

He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

We like to be deceived.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.