"Is lying a vice or a pragmatic virtue? Opinion over the centuries is divided. 'Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society', believed Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nietzsche put it more forgivingly: 'That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.' But sages agree on one point: a liar will not be believed, even when they speak the truth; one falsehood spoils a thousand truths."
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