A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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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.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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.
It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive.
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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.
I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
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