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

—John Gay, 1728

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

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

—Jean Genet, 1986

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

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

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

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

—Tennessee Williams, 1953

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