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

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

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.

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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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