An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

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

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

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

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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

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