"Many good purposes lie in the churchyard."

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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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"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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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Sanity is a cozy lie."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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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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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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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 had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours."

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"To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."

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"True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn."

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"Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation."

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"He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself."

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"Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue."

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"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one."

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

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

"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."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"Sanity is a cozy lie."

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

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

"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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"He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity."

"Let us love temperately, things violent last not."

"Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here."

"I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours."

"To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."

"True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn."

"Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation."

"He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself."

"Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue."

"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one."