Who a Lover can deceive?

The deceived has the better of the deceiver.

Who can deceive a lover?

You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. As for women, this sort of reciprocal deceit cancels itself out, for when love enters in, both parties are usually dupes

We deceive ourselves a good deal about love. It is almost never what they say it is.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I have trusted very much and been sometimes deceived; but I know that had I trusted less I would have been still oftener deceived.

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

The close affinity between sexual Eros and deceit is very startling - as in infatuation, infidelity and jealousy: " Quoniam lumbi mei repleti sunt illusionibus. " For, isolated, Eros is in every sense the most treacherous counterfeit of love, sending a continual flow of self-deception and delusion throughout the world, etc.

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

what would be left of love without truth stretched beyond its limits

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.