Quotes About Deception

The weariness of all illusions and of everything that illusions involve — the loss of them, the pointlessness of having them, the anticipatory weariness of having to have them in order to lose them, the pain of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing how they would end.

Não sei se é amor que tens, ou amor que finges, O que me dás. Dás-mo. Tanto me basta. Já que o não sou por tempo, Seja eu jovem por erro. Pouco os deuses nos dão, e o pouco é falso. Porém, se o dão, falso que seja, a dádiva É verdadeira. Aceito, Cerro olhos: é bastante. Que mais quero?

Civilization consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result.

My life is so sad, and yet I do not even consider weeping over it; my hours are so false, and I do not even dream the gesture that might end them.

Toen ik mij wilde ontmaskeren Zat het masker vast aan mijn gezicht.

Sunt oameni fericiÅ£i fiindc? li s-a dat visul mincinos al imbecilit??ii.În vreme ce alÅ£ii,ca mine,au visuri lipsite de iluzii.

Let us watch Time painting the world and finding the resulting picture not only false but hollow.

To explain is to disbelieve. Every philosophy is a diplomacy dressed up as eternity..... Like diplomacy, it has no real substance, existing not in its own right but completely and absolutely on behalf of some objective.

Government is based on two things: restraint and deceit.

Believe me, only vulgar creatures actually do deceive their husbands.

Nunca duvidei que todos me traíssem; e pasmei sempre quando me traíram.

El mundo exterior existe como un actor en un escenario: está allí pero es otra cosa.

No encontrar nunca a Dios, no saber nunca, ni siquiera, si Dios existe! Ir pasando de mundo en mundo, de encarnación en encarnación, siempre en la ilusión que halaga, siempre en el error que acaricia.

espejos fantásticos que se deforman en reflexiones

Tenho uma grande tristeza Acrescentada à que sinto. Quero dizer-ma mas pesa O quanto comigo minto.

O mundo exterior existe como um ator num palco: está lá mas é outra coisa.

We may be guided by an illusion, but one thing is sure, it is not our consciousness that guides us.

You've never heard the wind blow. The wind only speaks of the wind. What you heard was a lie, And the lie is in you.

I painted myself in false colors and ended up with an attic room for an empire.

Anything that involves action, be it war or reasoning, is false; and anything that involves abdication is false too.

Deixa que um momento pense Que ainda vives ao meu lado... Triste de quem por si mesmo Precisa ser enganado!

To be adept at deluding oneself is the first prerequisite for a statesman. Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

our pain is only grave and serious when we pretend it is.

Their way of dreaming is a garment that conceals, not a dream that creates.