Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth

But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love read more

But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, read more

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in read more

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised read more

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.

Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.