Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
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