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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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

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

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