Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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

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

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

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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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

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

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

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

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