Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.
Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.
Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
The world loves to be deceived.
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as our misery comes from our belief, and not from the thing believed, it is necessary to be on the watch, so as not to be deceived by false guides. Sensation contains no intelligence or belief, but is a mere disturbance of the matter, called agitation, which produces mind, and is ready to receive the seed of error. Ever since man was created, there has been an element called error which has been busy inventing answers for every sensation.
If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.
Things are not what they seem.