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Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised read more
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself
But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love read more
But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. read more
Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.
Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly read more
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.