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

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

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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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