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

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

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

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.