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

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

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

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

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

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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