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

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

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

—Tennessee Williams, 1953

Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817

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

—Bill Clinton, 1996

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

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738