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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

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

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

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