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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

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

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

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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