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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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