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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.

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