Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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.

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

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

Life is the art of being well deceived.