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Baltasar Gracián
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integ
Baltasar Gracián
F. Scott Fitzgerald
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
He saw she was lying but it was a brave lie. They
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ralph Waldo Emerson
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of sui
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
A falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but to
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jean Cocteau
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctio
Jean Cocteau
Lord Byron
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but / The trut
Lord Byron
Francis Bacon
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
Francis Bacon
Giambattista Vico
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, n
Giambattista Vico