In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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