“A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise... But it is necessary to know how to disguise this nature well and to be a great hypocrite and a liar.”
Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 18; translated by Peter Bondanella
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Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 15; translated by W. K. Marriot
“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”
Rosa, Act Three, Scene Three
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“Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 594.
“Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary”
A Critique of Just War Doctrine http://archive.org/details/JustWarTheoryCritique (1921) by Ben Salmon, pp.86–87
Context: Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary, and very properly assuming that Christ told the truth, it follows that the State is without [in the words of Father Macksey] ‘judicial authority to determine when war is necessary,’ because it is never necessary.
A Guide in the Wilderness, Gilbert & Hodges, 1810, p. 38 https://books.google.com/books?id=zNDTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA38.
“Only the brave know how to forgive…A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.”
Sermons, Vol. I, No. 12 (1760).
