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

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

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

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

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