If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCThere was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCAn honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822