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

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

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.

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

Life is the art of being well deceived.