Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

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