If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991
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And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbMen were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875