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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

Lie, Destiny, Fathers, Fatigue

"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

Lie, Lies, Nothing, Secrecy

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

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Lie, Man, Memory

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Lie, Lies, Opinion

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

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

Lie, Sin, Tools

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

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Lie, Memory

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

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Lie, Scandal

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Lie, Lies

"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."

Hal Holbrook, American Actor

Lie, Causes, Feeling, Hate

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

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Lie, Injury, Lying

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"The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens."

Past

"The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump."

Danger

"All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand."

Future

"Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother."

Family

"We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech."

Freedom

"The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full."

Philosophy

"Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?"

Politics

"Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud."

Philosophy

"Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue."

Lie