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In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

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

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.

—Congolese proverb

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

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

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

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

—Jean Genet, 1986
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