"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone."

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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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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Lie, Scandal

"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 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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"They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out."

Lester Bowie, American Musician

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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 don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."

Roone Arledge, American Journalist

Lie, Network, News, Past

"To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers."

Henrietta Szold, American Activist

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"All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved."

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"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."

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"Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms."

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"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."

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"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk."

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"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it."

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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."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

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

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

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

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

"They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out."

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

"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."

"To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers."

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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

"Education is not so important as people think."

"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."

"All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved."

"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone."

"Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique."

"Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms."

"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."

"Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk."

"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it."