Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

A learned man has always riches in himself.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.

Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time when out of place they are offensive.

A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers but he is a laughing stock to those who know him.

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.