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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.