Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
We are our own aptest deceiver.
Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.
Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.
