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

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

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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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