“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.”
“Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.”
“Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.”
“The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.”
“Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.”
“To overvalue something is a form of lying.”
“Exaggeration is a branch of lying.”
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