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.

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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