We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

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

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

Life is the art of being well deceived.