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

Plutarch

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It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
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Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me
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