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In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

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

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

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

—Jean Genet, 1986

Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Congolese proverb

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

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

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

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb