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“Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.”

Ifs Men Giving Character Lying Practice Honest Ill Reports Deceit Dishonesty Honest Man

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.”

Ifs Knows Truth Lying Artist Reports

Book:Real People: A Novel

Source: Real People: A Novel

“There are reports that Kim Jong Un climbed North Korea's highest mountain. Kim Jong Un said all it took to climb that mountain was hard work, determination, and lying about climbing that mountain.”

Said Hard Lying Hard Work Mountain Highest Determination Reports Climbs Climbing Korea North Korea Kim

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.”

People Firsts Would Be Lying Break Hero Paid Soldier Reports Abandoned Submit Royal Castles Shameful Atrocities Trenches

Author:Karl Kraus

“There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.”

Ifs Men Giving Action Lying Speak Honor Prove Reports Flattery

Author:Owen Feltham

“For malice will with joy the lie receive, Report, and what it wishes true believe.”

Believe Joy Lying Wish Reports Malice

Book:The Poetical Works of Thomas Yalden: to which is Prefixed, a Biographical Sketch of the Author, by the Editor. Magnet Edition

Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Yalden: to which is Prefixed, a Biographical Sketch of the Author, by the Editor. Magnet Edition