In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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.

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

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

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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

Children and fools cannot lie.