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

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

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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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

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

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

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

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

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

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

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