Body Quote by Benjamin Franklin

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a…

— Benjamin Franklin

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

— Samuel Johnson

Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.

— William Penn

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to…

— Samuel Johnson

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

— Plato

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

— Leo Tolstoy

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

— Samuel Johnson

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

— William Hazlitt

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

— Alexander Pope

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

— Sophocles