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

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

And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

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

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

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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.