Life is the art of being well deceived.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

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

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

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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.