In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BC
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIf you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbGrow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverb