"The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others."
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"To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it."
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"I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you."
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"Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods."
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"It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us."
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"When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived."
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"It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love."
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"There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them."
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"Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him."
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"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad."
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