A Quote by Christina, Queen of Sweden

It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.

Christina, Queen of Sweden

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Christina, Queen of Sweden
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December 18, 1626 - April 19, 1689

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

Olusegun Obasanjo

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Sissela Bok

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

Johann G. Seume

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

Casey Affleck

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

Ignatius of Antioch

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

C. S. Lewis

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.