Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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.

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

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