There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.

An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.

Children and fools cannot lie. 

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.

If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.

Life is the art of being well deceived.