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Age of Enlightenment1 quote
A known liar should be outlawed in a well-ordered government. — George Savile, Lord Halifax · 1750Classical antiquity1 quote
How, then, might we contrive... One noble lie to persuade if possible the rulers themselves, but failing that the rest of the city? — Socrates · 375 BC