Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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