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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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.

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

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

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

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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