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

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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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