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

If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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

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

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