A liar should have a good memory.

About Sallust

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Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust ( , SAL-əst; c. 86 – c. 35 BC), was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC),...

More quotations from Sallust

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

More quotations tagged with “lies”

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

—Jerome K. Jerome

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