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

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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.

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

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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