I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
I said in my haste, All men are liars.

I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
I said in my haste, All men are liars.

And none speaks false, when there in none to hear.

And none speaks false, when there in none to hear.

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie;
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Round numbers are always false.

Round numbers are always false.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

A liar should have a good memory.

A liar should have a good memory.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.

Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.

A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should read more

A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.