“[I]n the age of the lie, the truth sometimes throws its head back and bursts out laughing.”
"Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect."
The penalty of deception is to become a deception...A man who lies habitually becomes a lie, and it is increasingly impossible for him to know when he is lying and when he is not. In other words, the moral mercury of life is reduced to zero.