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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.

—Lord Byron, 1822

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.

—Jean Genet, 1986

He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

—Bill Clinton, 1996

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC