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Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

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

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

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

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

—John Gay, 1728

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

—Bill Clinton, 1996

Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875

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

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947