“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ”
“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”
“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.”
“I remembered that, so I allowed myself to hope... perhaps I wanted to... we all deceive ourselves, when we want to believe.”
“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.”
“We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.”