"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest."

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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Sanity is a cozy lie."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"I keep reading between the lies."

Goodman Ace, American Writer

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."

Elia Kazan, American Director

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"I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off."

Clifford Irving, American Writer

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"My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two."

Edie Falco, American Actress

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"They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves."

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"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty."

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"Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it."

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"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

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"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

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"The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day."

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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

"I keep reading between the lies."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."

"I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off."

"My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two."

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"They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves."

"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty."

"Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it."

"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

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"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."

"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."

"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

"The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day."