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In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

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

—Jean Genet, 1986

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

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

—Congolese proverb

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

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

—John Gay, 1728

An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

—Maxim Gorky, 1902

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

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

—Tennessee Williams, 1953

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

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC