C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Fraud
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self.
Bailey.
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
Shakespeare.
Milton.
Milton.
Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.
Machiavelli.