All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
The lie is a condition of life.
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
Deception is everywhere.
Lying does exist in crazy forms.
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.