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• Husbands, like golfers, rarely cheat but once.
  • Jacob M. Appel, liberal writer and medical historian, Hate the Husband? Sue the Mistress! Huffington Post, Oct. 6, 2009.

• No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
  • Sophocles, Fragments, l (671)

• I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
  • Herodotus, The Histories, 1.153.1

• Doubtless the pleasure is as great
  Of being cheated as to cheat.
  • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part II, canto iii, line i (1664)

• L'intention de ne jamais tromper nous expose à être souvent trompés.
  • Translation: The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.
  • François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 118 (1665-1678)

• When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;
  Yet, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit;
  Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay.
  Tomorrow's falser than the former day.
  None would live past years again,
  Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain;
  And from the dregs of life think to receive
  What the first sprightly running could not give.
  • John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe (1676), Act IV, scene i.

• Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his marketcare into a chariot of the sun. What a day dawns, when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith!
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Worship,” The Conduct of Life (1860)

• One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
  • Franz Kafka, The Third Notebook (December 8, 1917)