“The state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.”

“...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.”

“He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.”

“Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.”

“A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them.Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, but hated as the evil eye, and as sin against laws and customs.”

“To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.”