"Weaklings must lie."

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"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"When you crop the photo, you tell a lie."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"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."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe."

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"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."

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"Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years."

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"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out."

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"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."

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"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows."

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"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."

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"There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know."

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"Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him."

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