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He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.

—Jean Genet, 1986

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.

—John Gay, 1728

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC
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