A liar should have a good memory. — Quintilian · Skopia

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A liar should have a good memory.

In the original Latin

mendacem memorem esse oportere

Institutio Oratoria · 95

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Consequences of lying Liars

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Philosophical literature

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95 Classical antiquity

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Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria [Institutes of Oratory]. c. 95 AD, bk. 4, ch. 1, sect. 91.

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