Stanisław Lem book Szempillantás
Starożytni mawiali: 'mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur'.
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"A Blink of an Eye", Okamgnienie (2000); the phrase "Mundus Vult Decipi" was used as a motto by the American satirist James Branch Cabell and is said to have originated with Petronius.
