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Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

Plutarch
Lying, Men, Vices

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

Plutarch
Lying, Desert, World
Parallel Lives "Aemilius Paulus" sec. 5

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Plutarch
Happiness, Lying, Men
Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.303

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

Plutarch
Lying, Speech, Figures
"Life of Themistocles". Book by Plutarch,

Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

Plutarch
Liars, Lying
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 485-487, 1922.

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