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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Aristotle
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte
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True strength lies in gentleness.

Irish Proverb
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. -Martin Luther King Jr.
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Men of ill judgment oft ignore the goodThat lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. -Sallust
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Samuel Butler
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The test of any man lies in action.

Pindar
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A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world. -Ariel Sharon
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

H. L. Mencken
307
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A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian
287
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A liar is always lavish of oaths. -Pierre Corneille
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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

Voltaire
261
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Otto von Bismarck
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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. -Bernard M. Baruch
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Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

Jane Fonda
201
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The biggest liar in the world is They Say.

Douglas Malloch
198
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Francois Rabelais
191
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Mark Rutherford
170
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Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! -Sir Walter Scott
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Clare Booth Luce
163
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I long for scenes where man has never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.

John Clare
161
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The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. -Mark Twain
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

Baltasar Gracian
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato
152
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I would never lie. I willfully participate in a campaign of misinformation. -Fox Mulder
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