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

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

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

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.