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Афоризмы о лжи

"популярный" - "popular"
"мнение" - "opinion"
"ложь" - "lie"
"искусство" - "art"
"правда" - "truth"
"осознавать" - "to realize"
"позиция" - "policy"
"если только не" - "unless"
"исключительно" - "exceptionally"
"человечество" - "humanity"
"отчаяние" - "despair"
"скука" - "boredom"
"содержать в себе" - "to contain"
"чрезвычайно" - "extremely"
"нудный" - "tedious"
"шанс" - "chance"
"штаны" - "pants"
"дурак" - "fool"
"требовать" - "to require"
"здравомыслящий человек" - "man of sense"
"жестокий" - "cruel"
"тишина" - "silence"
"ослеплять" - "to blind"
"наоборот" - "on the contrary"
"полумрак" - "twilight"
"улучшать" - "to enhance"
"предмет" - "object"
"существовать" - "to exist"
"выдумывать" - "to invent"
"повторение" - "repetition"
"изменять" - "to transform"
"несомненно" - "truly"
"благородный" - "honorable"
"влечь за собой" - "to entail"
"огромный" - "tremendous"
"крушение" - "ruin"
"обманывать" - "to deceive"
"простительный" - "pardonable"

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.

                                                                                  Jerome K. Jerome (English comic writer)

 

Without lies humanity would perish (['perɪʃ] гибнуть (книжн.)) of despair and boredom.

                                                                                              Anatole France(French writer)

 

History books that contain no lies are extremely tedious.

Anatole France

 

The easiest person to deceive is one’s self.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (English politician, poet, playwright)

 

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Thomas Carlyle (English writer, historian, philosopher)

 

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Albert Camus (French writer, philosopher)

 

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso (French painter)

 

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill (British politician, Prime Minister)

 

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (President of the USA)

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler (English writer, philosopher, theologian, musician)

 

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Kurt Vonnegut (American writer)

 

A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

Benjamin Franklin (American politician, diplomat, physicist)

 

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson (English writer)

 

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain (American writer)

 

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Georges Braque (French painter and sculptor)

 

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Sophocles (ancient Greek tragedian)