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

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

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

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

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.

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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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

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

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

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