“The deceived has the better of the deceiver.”

— Giovanni Boccaccio, book The Decameron

Lo ingannatore rimane a pié dello ingannato.
Second Day, Ninth Story (tr. J. M. Rigg)
The Decameron (c. 1350)

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Italian author and poet 1313–1375

Christian D. Larson (1874–1962) Prolific author of metaphysical and New Thought books

Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), p. 219

“It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”

Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.

C'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.
Book II (1668), fable 15 (The Cock and the Fox).
Fables (1668–1679)
Variant: It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

“Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

From The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955), p. 260 ; as cited in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0231071949, ed. Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press (1993), p. 741 <br class="br">The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)