Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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