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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.