Literary notes about fraud (AI summary)
In literature, the term fraud is employed in a wide array of contexts that reveal its multifaceted significance. It often denotes not merely deceit in personal dealings but also embodies a broader moral, political, or legal failing. At times, fraud appears as an instrument of political subterfuge or a tactical device in war, where force and deception are inseparable [1], [2]. In legal discourse, it serves as a crucial element for annulling contracts or alleging wrongful actions [3], [4]. Moreover, literary narratives use fraud to evoke themes of betrayal and the corruption of trust, whether in personal relationships or societal institutions [5], [6]. Even in works of epic poetry and satire, fraud is portrayed as an ever-present vice that undermines genuine virtue, highlighting the inevitable clash between appearance and reality in human affairs [7], [8].
- Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
— from Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain - Then change we shields, and their devices bear: Let fraud supply the want of force in war.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil - The least concealment, fraud, or deception, if proved, annuls the contract.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - Fraud may as well lead to the making of a contract by a statement outside the contract as by one contained in it.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - ‘Something has been got from him by fraud, I know,’ returned Traddles
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - I said it was a mean, disgraceful fraud.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain - [Lat][obs3][Juvenal]; fidelis ad urnam[Lat]; "his heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth"
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget - It’s a game,” I went on; “it’s a policy and a fraud!”
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
