In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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

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

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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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

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

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.