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

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

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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