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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

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