"Fallite fallentes: ex magna parte profanum Sunt genus; in laqueos quos posuere, cadant."
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The cheaters cheat, mostly a godless gang; In their own nooses let the scoundrels hang. — 1, 645 — Quoted in Georg Büchmann, Geflügelte Worte, 19th ed. (1898). Le trompeur trompé ("The Cheater Cheated"), title of a comic opera of Guilet and Gaveaux, 1799: and the Betrogene Betrüger (same meaning) of G. E. Lessing, Nathan, 3, 7.
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