Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage then to their disadvantage.

Deceive not thy physician confessor nor lawyer.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

In complete darkness we are all the same it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us don't let your eyes deceive you.

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers if 'facts' are fictional how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good to the praise that deceives them.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself were it possible.

All men are by nature equal made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.