Posted by: Andrea Manfrč
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Truth and lies)
What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
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What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
A mask tells us more than a face.
A thing is not necessarily true just because someone dies for it.
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
You only appreciate things when they're gone.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Living without trying means having always the doubt that you'll have made it.
It is very difficult for a man to believe enough energetically in something, so that what he believes means something, without annoying the others.
All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone