Believe Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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 has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a…

— Joseph Addison

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— William Hazlitt

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 but the low mimic of wisdom.

— Plato

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

— Catherine Wilson

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

— Andrew Young

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

— Walter Lippmann