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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

"The Fables of La Fontaine: Book II". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.11, Macmillan

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.165, Faber & Faber

I don't like hype cluttering art.

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.432, Booklassic

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.142