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A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
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All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
Cosmos (1980) -
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't - it's human.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
Doom and glory of knowing who you are -
The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception.
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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
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We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) -
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
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