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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

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

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

—John Gay, 1728

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.

—Lord Byron, 1822
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