I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Wickedness sucks in the greater part of its own venom and poisons itself therewith

Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth.