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

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

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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Children and fools cannot lie. 

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.