“A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.”
Source: Sex and Character (1903), p. 150.
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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 1.
“It is better to speak the truth, and lose, than to win by lying.”
Act I, scene II. — (Polinico).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 298.
La Calandria (c. 1507)
March 31, 1778, p. 372
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“How many, tired of lying, commit suicide into any truth.”
Cuántos, cansados de mentir, se suicidan en cualquier verdad.
Voces (1943)
Variant: With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying.
Mystic Treatises, cited in Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (1976), [//books.google.it/books?id=dxqvWwPSCSwC&pg=PA111 p. 111]; also cited and discussed in A. M. Allchin, The World is a Wedding (1978), p. 85. Quoted in Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology (1994), [//books.google.it/books?id=ESTjQYS_8hMC&pg=PA56 p. 56].
“Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.”
Source: Alanna: The First Adventure