The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency — the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.

There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly acquit the women. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon...

I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.