Thread: How do you say "The sacrifice of hiding in a lie" in Russian?

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

Sounds like straightforward moralising to me

As a first approach - yeah, but as usual with classical quotations there is much more behind if one knows the source. It was not by Chekhov directly but by his fictitious hero.

BTW Most well-known collection of moralizing in Russian classic literature often can be found on humor sites. Warning: no way of adequate translation.

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

Also why is it «лжа»? I can't see that in the declensions of «ложь»...

That fictitious hero found that it sounds better. More aphoristic. Тля-ржа-лжа is a kind of rhyme.

Originally Posted by it-ogo

That fictitious hero found that it sounds better. More aphoristic. Тля-ржа-лжа is a kind of rhyme.

It turns out there was the old archaic form "лжа" (Намеренное искажение истины; неправда, ложь.). It existed in Old Russian, here is the link:

лжа