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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

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

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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

—Jean Genet, 1986

Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.

—John Gay, 1728

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

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

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.

—Congolese proverb