Unless art deceives, it is not art. [ Reiner ]

A book is a friend that never deceives. [ Pixerecourt ]

He that once deceives is ever suspected. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Reason deceives us often; conscience never. [ Rousseau ]

Reason deceives us often, - conscience, never.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [ Jean J. Rousseau ]

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure
Which is useful to them to praise which deceives them. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Evasive of the bridal day, she gives fond hopes to all, and all with hope deceives. [ Pope ]

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceives us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years. [ Ovid ]

Dress deceives us: jewels and gold hide everything: the girl herself is the least part of herself. [ Ovid ]

Beauty deceives women in making them establish on an ephemeral power the pretensions of a whole life. [ Bignicourt ]

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays. [ Bacon ]

One deviates to the right, another to the left; the error is the same with all, but it deceives them in different ways. [ Horace ]

When we imagine that we love, it is the presence of the loved one that deceives us: when we truly love, it is absence that proves it. [ Lingrie ]

He who thinks he can do without the world deceives himself; but he who thinks that the world can not do without him is still more in error. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace. [ Quarles ]