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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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.

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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

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