Appearing Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— William Hazlitt

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

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit,…

— Joseph Addison

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

— William Shakespeare

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

— Seneca the Younger