"A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour."

Lie, Desire, Intention, Words

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"A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour."

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Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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David Antin, American Poet

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"But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company."

Steve Wozniak, American Businessman

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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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"I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us."

Leverett Saltonstall, American Politician

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"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically."

Diane Ackerman, American Poet

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"Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too."

Terry McAuliffe, American Politician

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"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."

Elizabeth Bowen, Irish Novelist

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"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."

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"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning."

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"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."

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"Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office."

Law

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Nothing

"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind."

Care

"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest."

Wit

"And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together."

Contribution

"I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."

Religion

"They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives."

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