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.

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

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.