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

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

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

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

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

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