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Baltasar Graci�n y Morales
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity
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Anatole France
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Samuel Butler
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him
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Samuel Butler
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy
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Mark Twain
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives
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Mark Twain
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes
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Samuel Johnson
A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told
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Friedrich Nietzsche
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception
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Friedrich Nietzsche
The lie is a condition of life
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Friedrich Nietzsche
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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