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To be a man’s own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody’s.

William Penn

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

François de La Rochefoucauld

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

François de La Rochefoucauld

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

François de La Rochefoucauld

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

François de La Rochefoucauld

There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others and those we hide from ourselves.

Frank Warren

We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

Frederick Salomon Perls

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one’s self.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

When will I learn? The answers to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle. They’re on TV!

Matt Groening

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

Michael Crichton

Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is.

Lily Collins

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

Luc de Clapiers

Every lie has 2 parts – the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.

George Deukmejian

Either they’re trying to con you or they’re trying to con themselves.

Warren Buffett

But avoidance allows you to believe that you’re making all kinds of strides when you’re not.

Liz Murray

Lie until even you believe it – that’s the real secret of lying

Holly Black

Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something

Harlan Coben

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Henry Cloud

Don’t be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Henry David Thoreau

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

George Santayana

People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

Geraldine Jewsbury

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