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

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

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

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Bill Clinton, 1996

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

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

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

—Congolese proverb

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738