There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbGrow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCIt was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbYou can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCChildren and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546