The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

We like to be deceived.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.