Aesop Quote

First appearance deceives many.

Ovid

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Phaedrus

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Trust not to much to appearances.

Virgil

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Anaxagoras

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

Ovid

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Niccolo Machiavelli

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Appearance rules the world.

Friedrich Schiller

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Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

Hesiod

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

Walter Scott

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Jean Cocteau

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Voltaire

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Voltaire

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

Herodotus

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Francesco Petrarch

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Plato