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

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

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

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.

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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