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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.

—Lord Byron, 1822

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

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875

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

—John Gay, 1728

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

—Jean Genet, 1986

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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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