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If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

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

—Lord Byron, 1822

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

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875

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

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

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

—John Gay, 1728
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