If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverb
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIf you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbLife is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996