A Quote by Samuel Johnson

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
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September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

Charles Caleb Colton

To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.

Elspeth Huxley

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Jean de la Bruyere

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

Giacomo Casanova

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Horace

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

Matthew Henry

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

Tim Cook

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

Anthony Trollope

The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.

Leo Tolstoy

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

Marcel Proust

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

R. D. Laing

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?

Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating

Muso Soseki

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Aesop

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