Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811
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The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCYou can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbYour piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIt was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbMen were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902