Liars win this: no one believes them when they tell the truth.
Aristotle, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 5
Liars win this: no one believes them when they tell the truth.
Aristotle, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 5
The source
"Liars win this: no one believes them when they tell the truth." Aristotle said it in Diogenes Laertius, Lives 5. Translated by C. D. Yonge, 1853.
"They gain this ... that when they speak truth they are not believed"C. D. Yonge, 1853, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 5. Anecdote reported by Diogenes Laertius (3rd century AD).
Who said it
Aristotle (384–322 BC). Plato's student and Alexander's tutor, who wrote on virtue as a practiced habit.
Questions
- Who said "Liars win this: no one believes them when they tell the truth."?
- Aristotle (384–322 BC). Source: Diogenes Laertius, Lives 5.
- What is the original wording?
- They gain this ... that when they speak truth they are not believed (C. D. Yonge, 1853). Translated by C. D. Yonge, 1853.
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