People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

It’s okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to...

The darkness always lies.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of the clergy to adulterate education with superstition. To maintain their untenable position they...

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.

We can now see a pattern of coordination and deceit.

Deceit for personal gain is one of history’s most recurring crimes. Man’s first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before...

Why does death have to stop #love? It doesn’t stop people from voting in Chicago.

Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.

Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it ‘sucka-free’, loved one!

Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.

a rumor is only true, if you get offended.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a...

good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to...

Now, I don’t believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. What has happened over the many centuries now, the better part of two thousand...

What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those...

If priests—of all clans—were free of disease and immune to death, then there might be some basis for the claim of the religionists. But these “men of God” are victims of the natural course of...

Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.

When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them. 2. They enjoy being a liar or...

It is important to refuse to be intimidated. That refusal must not be based simply on a calculation of the odds of succeeding. At times, in my case, multiple lawsuits and an ethics charge seemed...

Cleverness isn’t always true nor is the truth always clever.

Stop making flamboyant promises. Earn the people’s trust first, then do more than they expect

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

…a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes–for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one’s life.

Love hadn’t existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I’d let all of that crumble.By letting me in he’d done the same, and now we were engaged in...

Pretentiousness isn’t always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don’t mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the...

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

When your lover is a liar, you and he have a lot in common, you’re both lying to you!

When people communicate deceit, it’s called politics. When people communicate honesty, it’s called art.

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one’s pride in proving oneself right with one’s zeal for finding the truth.

She wasn’t always a pillar of ice. Her warmth and good deeds were repaid with deceit and betrayal until little by little a chill took over.

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’]Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses...

But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don’t know the Albert that don’t dance, can’t hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your...

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

In the abundance of men’s incredible promises, there’s an equal abundance of deceit

Would you dare to reach inside the vault of a feral heart?Glare into the keyhole, eyes bound with intrigue…is it real what we perceive? or does the absent colour leave you lost or decieved?

Anything someone gets conned into will never be that great.

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Never pretend to be something you are not, especially to be accepted. Be loved for who you are, it will be tough at times but worth it.

Nothing is more deceitful,” said Darcy, “than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Silence is a lie that screams at the light.

No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen to them. Character is not purchased with a dance in the street. It...