Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.

~ "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)

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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

~ "The Passionate State of Mind" by Eric Hoffer, 1955 (preview)