It is far better to be deceived than to be undeceived by those we love.
Related:
- 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... - We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have
never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson (1709... - We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to
prevent them.
Dora... - There is perhaps no surer mark of folly,
than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those... - So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good:
so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it... - The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than
others.
(Maxim 127) (Maxim 19) Usually we praise only to be...
