“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.”
Diane Arbus
“Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?”
Benjamin Franklin
“Deal in truth with everyone but most importantly with yourself.”
Temitope Ibrahim
“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.”
Oscar Wilde
“Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.”
Bible
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
“The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm”
Sylvia Plath
