Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbHe that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThere is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbYou can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996