[PatrickHenry]

One of the problems with plagiarism is that the only people tempted to do it are stupid people trying to appear to be intelligent; and stupid people are often too stupid to know that the stuff they're plagiarizing is stupid stuff.

Well, it's not a total loss. To his fellow fools, a plagiarist may indeed appear to be intelligent, because how is a fool to know the difference? However to the people a plagiarist is attempting to impress, plagiarism is a complete failure; because by committing the act of plagiarism, the plagiarist has added to his catalog of defects -- now he can be scorned for bad character, which is infinitely worse than mere stupidity.

[VadeRetro]

But you can always claim there's NO PROOF you didn't just happen to write the same words yourself.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Is the moral to plagiarize from better mathematicians? Perhaps from Minsk?