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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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.

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

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing.