Plutarch Quotes About Lying
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Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).
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As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
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Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.
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Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.
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