What men avoid by excluding the liar is not so much being defrauded as it is being harmed by means of fraud.

The liar is a person who uses the valid designations, the words, in order to make something which is unreal appear to be real. He says, for example, "I am rich," when the proper designation for his condition would be "poor."

It is only those who never-or always-attend church that underestimate the dishonesty with which this subject is still dealt in Protestant pulpits; in what a clumsy fashion the preacher takes advantage of his security from interruption; how the Bible is pinched and squeezed; and how the people are made acquainted with every form of the art of false reading.

Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.