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A Latin Maxim of Uncertain Origin

“He who knows not how to lie, knows not how to live.”

qui nescit dissimulare, nescit vivere.

I read this in my copy of Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson, who in the endnotes attributes this quotation to Frederick Barbarossa. I have also seen a variant of this saying, qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare attributed to Louis XI. If anyone knows anything about this maxim, please post it in the comments!

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