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.

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

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

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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