"Since there my past life lies, why alter it?"
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"Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice."
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"Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men."
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"People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other."
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"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."
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"Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises."
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"Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold."
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"For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it."
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"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."
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"There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest."
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"A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders."
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"O vanity, mislead no more!"
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"Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft."
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"My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!"
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"None are deceived but they that confide."
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"Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit."
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"Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked."
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"Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society."
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"Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit."
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"For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child."
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