“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.”

“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undecieved by them.”

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbor's, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”

“There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.”

“It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them”

“We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence”

“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”