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

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

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

He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.

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

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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.

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

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

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