Cunning Quote by Luc de Clapiers Download Open image “Hope deceives more men than cunning does.” — Luc de Clapiers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cunning Deceiving Doe Hope Men Science
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself. — Marjorie Bowen Copy Share Image
To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Would you like to sit?" Kellen asked her. "You'd better do it soon," Owen whispered close to her ear, "or I'm going to bend… — Olivia Cunning Copy Share Image
I am defined by my will to survive, not by intelligence or cunning or money or good looks. The Creator didn't see her way… — Jaune Quick–to–See Smith Copy Share Image
