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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

—Tennessee Williams, 1953

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

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

—John Gay, 1728

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

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

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

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

—Congolese proverb