Theognis, 607-8

 

There is a small pleasure at a lie’s beginning; but in the end

the profit is evil and a shame

 

᾿Αρχῆι ἔπι ψεύδους μικρὰ χάρις· εἰς δὲ τελευτήν

     αἰσχρὸν δὴ κέρδος καὶ κακόν…