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.

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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