DELUSION

Related Subjects: Conceit, Deceit, Error, Fool, Illusion, Senses, Vanity

1. No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.—C. N. BOVEE
   

2. The worst deluded are the self-deluded.—C. N. BOVEE
   

3. The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.—DISRAELI
   

4. You think a man to be your dupe. If he pretends to be so, who is the greatest dupe—he or you?—LA BRUYERE
   

5. Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

6. When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

7. It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others, because we are first deceived in ourselves.—SIR PHILIP SIDNEY