Despair is a greater deceiver than hope.

—Marqui de Vauvenargues

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The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

—Abraham Lincoln

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

—Virginia Woolf

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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3 Dec 2014 Added