"The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived" – Oscar Wilde

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  1. In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others. -- Oscar Wilde
  2. When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. -- Oscar Wilde
  3. It is quite as ignominious to allow oneself to be deceived as to deceive. -- Christina, Queen Of Sweden
  4. The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves. -- Joseph Joubert
  5. The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity. -- Sivananda
  6. It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. -- John Locke
  7. The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. -- Groucho Marx
  8. Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself. -- Marjorie Bowen
  9. The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. -- Pierre Charron
  10. What a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive." - William Shakespeare -- Norman Blume
  11. Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you ... and to love one woman for the rest of your life. -- Garrison Keillor
  12. The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves. -- Bill W.
  13. I know the secret of life, interestingly [laughs]: it's pleasure in simple things. I've always had this since I started growing up; I realised why I was mostly happy. It's because I took pleasure in the simplest, little things. -- Anonymous
  14. It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
  15. A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
  16. Live to Trick. Trick to live. -- Armin Houman
  17. It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
  18. It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  19. Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  20. The secret of life is knowing what you want and asking for it. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  21. You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul. -- Mary Oliver
  22. The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  23. I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another. -- Osamu Dazai
  24. Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
    For what every man wishes,
    that he also believes to be true. -- Demosthenes
  25. No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. -- Fulke Greville
  26. The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not -- Gorgias
  27. When you live by understanding, you will not be fooled any longer -- Sunday Adelaja
  28. One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be. -- Andre Malraux
  29. It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. -- Samuel Johnson
  30. It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
  31. In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others. -- Oscar Wilde
  32. It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart. -- Al Pacino
  33. When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy. -- Miyamoto Musashi
  34. Lie life through its fullest -- Ernest Hemingway,
  35. The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross. -- Sam Harris
  36. It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. -- Laurence J. Peter
  37. The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived. -- Said Nursi
  38. When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. -- Oscar Wilde
  39. No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived. -- James Randi
  40. The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
  41. The art of pleasing is the art of deception. -- Luc De Clapiers
  42. You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
  43. It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves. -- Philip Sidney
  44. Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it. -- Terry Pratchett
  45. The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
    -- Henry Moore
  46. Falseness in life is the secret that makes man's inner self a rare truth; it hides from him although it's obvious to all. -- Naguib Mahfouz
  47. If you want to know the secret of life, learn with enthusiasm and love with all of your heart. -- Debasish Mridha
  48. Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? -- Joseph Butler
  49. Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. -- Sissela Bok
  50. The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them. -- Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
  51. When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going. -- Nido R. Qubein
  52. We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
  53. Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions. -- Hector Hugh Munro
  54. Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge. -- Marty Rubin
  55. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. -- E. V. Lucas
  56. Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful. -- Richard Paul Evans
  57. One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences. -- John Edward Williams
  58. What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. -- Leo Buscaglia
  59. Patience protects you from deception -- A.R. Bernard
  60. The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible. -- Bertrand Russell
  61. Deception is a temporary medicine that gives relax for short time, but when the truth gets at even the actual medicine breaks down. -- Ahsan
  62. Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders. -- Demosthenes
  63. Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
  64. It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time. -- Janvier Chouteu-Chando
  65. We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none. -- Charlotte Lennox
  66. Man lives his whole life trying to figure out the secrets of life only to realize in the end life was the secret. -- Terry Blakeman
  67. Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities. -- Adam Gopnik
  68. It is better to be hurt by the raw truth rather than to be comfortably deceived. - Anonymous -- Monica Murphy
  69. As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today. -- Daniel Craig
  70. You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. -- Abraham Lincoln
  71. We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self]. -- Dada Bhagwan
  72. Illusions can be pleasant, but the rewards of truth are enormously better. -- Sean Carroll
  73. The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,
    The secret of life is Don't ever lose your senses in the NOW. -- Sushil Singh
  74. we can never fool ourselves no matter how deep inside our mind we think we are. -- M.B. Julien
  75. When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. -- John Dryden
  76. The key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth -- Simon Van Booy
  77. Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  78. Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception. -- William C. Brown
  79. The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. -- Cesare Pavese
  80. Even good people are obliged to deceive. -- Greg Lemond
  81. The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. -- James Taylor
  82. The secret of happiness is something to do -- John Burroughs
  83. The secret to happiness ... be satisfied and be grateful. -- Mitch Albom
  84. This is the great Secret of life. -- Michael Beckwith
  85. There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. -- Eben Alexander
  86. When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool. -- Edward Teller
  87. There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface. -- Michael C. Hall
  88. It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look. -- Polly Horvath
  89. Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. -- F Scott Fitzgerald
  90. The truth can deceive as well as a lie. -- Marie Rutkoski
  91. You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. -- Frank Crane
  92. The secret only harvests the hurt next to our hearts, blocking the sunlight from the spot where happiness is supposed to grow. -- Lexi Ryan
  93. You know the secret of life, my dear, because you know how to love. -- Jennifer Worth
  94. my whole life is nothing else than a daily effort to deceive myself and other people, and to avoid noticing it; -- Anton Chekhov
  95. The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies. -- Lewis B. Smedes
  96. The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
  97. He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss. -- Albert Einstein
  98. Mind what you do; if you deceive me once I shall never believe you again. -- Denis Diderot
  99. Don't be fooled by the magic of the world. -- Kris Villarreal
  100. The best deceivers are those who know the truth, but denies it. -- Michael Barber
  101. The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
  102. There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves. -- Eric Hoffer