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

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

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

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

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

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

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.