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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

Children and fools cannot lie. 

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

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

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

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

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