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.

Children and fools cannot lie. 

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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.

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

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

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