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    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
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    André Malraux
    “Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
    ― André Malraux
    tags: deception, hiding, lies, man, secrets, self-awareness
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

    ("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
    ― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
    tags: deception, devil, existence, reality, ruse, ruses, sleight-of-hand, tricks
    1107 likes

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    Walter Scott
    “Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
    ― Walter Scott, Marmion
    tags: deception, honesty, inspirational, lies, truth
    1070 likes

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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: deception
    952 likes

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    Alfred Tennyson
    “A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: deception, lying
    714 likes

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    Euripides
    “When one with honeyed words but evil mind
    Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
    ― Euripides, Orestes
    tags: administration, deceit, deception, elections, evil, false-promises, falsehood, government, power, seduction, tyranny
    588 likes

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    Eugene V. Debs
    “In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
    ― Eugene Victor Debs
    tags: authoritarianism, deception, exploitation, fundamentalism, nationalism, oppression, patriotism, religion, totalitarianism, tyranny
    498 likes

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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: acid, attack, bad-people, calumny, chemical, counterfeit, deception, decievers, demon, devil, fake, fake-friends, fault-finders, food-for-thought, gossip, haters, hatred, hurt, incessant, insanity, negative, negative-people, pessimism, plot, ploy, pretence, pretenders, slander, slanderers, smiles, strategy, swindle, sycophants, toxic-people, trick, troubesome-people, trouble, villain
    387 likes

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    Salman Rushdie
    “The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
    tags: analysis, clear-mindedness, clear-view, outside-the-box, perception, view-from-outside, whole-picture
    21 likes

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    Nadina Boun
    “To think or not to think? That is the new question.”
    ― Nadina Boun, The Thinking Man, Paralysis by Analysis
    tags: analysis, humor, logic, reason, satire, thinking-for-change
    14 likes



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