Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.