Cheating (n.) at play, even when it wins, makes a man despise himself: 'I am worthless though I have filled my purse' is judged by another standard than 'I am prudent, for I have enriched my coffer.'
Cheating (n.) is like taking the lift in a stair race, then waiting at the top to discuss pacing.
Cheating (n.) draws its outrage less from the loss it causes than from the effort it skips.
Cheating (n.) depends entirely on everyone else keeping the rule it just broke.
Evasion (n.) is the other opposite of the good resolution: neither evil enough for the seducer's demoniacal resolution nor good enough to be a husband, the evader withdraws "in a courteous manner" and in half a year finds good reasons.
Evasion (n.) is like a door held shut with a foot: it works, and everyone can see the foot.
Evasion (n.) is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.
Fraud (n.) springs from some defect, like all deception — which is why God cannot deceive.
Fraud (n.) on credit means discounting accommodation bills not to make a profit but to lay hands on other people's capital, covering one squalid deal with the next.
Fraud (n.) was the very motto of German industry: send first good samples, and bad goods afterwards — people cannot fail to appreciate it.
Fraud (n.) is the fashionable stupidity of labelling whatever one cannot explain — though science equally cannot afford the luxury of naïveté.
Gaslighting (n.) is control that begins by stealing the shared past.
Gaslighting (n.) is cruelty that needs you to apologize for noticing it.
Gaslighting (n.) is the systematic attempt by one person to erode another person's reality, by telling them that what they are experiencing isn't so - and, the gradual giving up on the part of the other person.