In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BC
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCSomeone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbIf you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbThe poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCAnyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986