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

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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

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