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The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks read more
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
 It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
 [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]  
 It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
 [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.] 
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice.
But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice.
 It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
 [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]  
 It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
 [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.] 
 You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the 
greater dupe, he read more 
 You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the 
greater dupe, he or you?
 [Fr., Vous le croyez votre dupe: s'il feint de l'etre, qui est 
plus dupe, de lui ou de vous?]