Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbIn most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCThe 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