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Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
The Screwtape Letters (1942) -
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction!
Pensees (1669) -
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
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In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
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The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
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There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
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Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
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