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Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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

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

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Lord Byron, 1822

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

—Bill Clinton, 1996