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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

—Jean Genet, 1986
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