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Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

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

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

—Congolese proverb

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

—John Gay, 1728

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

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

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

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

—Tennessee Williams, 1953

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946