When lying, what must be taken into account is not the plausibility of the lie, but the greed, vanity and stupidity of the recipient. One never lies to people; they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear. Thats the secret.
Blessed is he against whom the idiots rage, for his soul shall never belong to them.
The difficulty is not to make money, but to make it with something worth devoting your life to.
“Poetry is written with tears, a novel with blood, and history with invisible ink,” said the cardinal, smearing the knife’s edge with poison by the light of the candlestick.
