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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
-H. L. Mencken
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When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.
-Merlin
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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
-Henry Miller
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
-A.A. (Alan Alexandra) Milne
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
-Ceslaw Milosz
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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
-C. E. Montague
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Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
-Michel de Montaigne
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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
-Michel de Montaigne
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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
-Michel de Montaigne
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
-Michel de Montaigne
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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
-Michel de Montaigne
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you - that is what has distressed me.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil, maxim #183
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By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
-Dorothy Parker
Unfortunate Coincidence
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When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie.
-Eric Parslow
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We like to be deceived.
-Blaise Pascal
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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
-Phaedrus
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Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
-Plato
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
-Plato
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It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
-O. Henry Porter
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
-Marcel Proust
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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
-Marcel Proust
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Books about Deception/Lying
