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• It is far better to be deceived than to be undeceived by those we love.
• It is better to be deceived by a friend, than to suspect him.
• From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved.
  One might perhaps answer that we should wish to be both, but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....
• We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have never deceived us.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
  -- Dora Russell...
• There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
• So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good
  o far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing...
• The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
  (Maxim 127) (Maxim 19) Usually we praise only to be praised. (Maxim 146)...