
“A lie never lives to be old.”
Acrisius, fragment 59.
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Sophocles 68
ancient Greek tragedian -496–-406 BCRelated quotes

“An old dissembler who lived out his lie
Lies here as if he did not fear to die.”
"An Epitaph for Anyone", 1942 The Poems of J. V. Cunningham, edited by Timothy Steele, Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 1997, ISBN 0-804-00997-X
Epigrams

“Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet

“People lie. Auras never lie.”
The Eight Human Talents (2001)

“To Live signifies to believe and hope — to lie and to lie to oneself.”
A Short History of Decay (1949)
