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Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning (Cunning Quotes)
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others (Cunning Quotes)
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good (Cunning Quotes)
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish (Cunning Quotes)
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth’s itself a lie (Cunning Quotes)
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word (Cunning Quotes)
The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he’s as cunning as he is ferocious; once he’s had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do (Cunning Quotes)
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form (Cunning Quotes)
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool (Cunning Quotes)
Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end (Cunning Quotes)
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint (Cunning Quotes)
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve (Cunning Quotes)
A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good (Cunning Quotes)
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her (Cunning Quotes)
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive (Cunning Quotes)
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning (Cunning Quotes)
The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds (Cunning Quotes)
You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering (Cunning Quotes)
... a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less (Cunning Quotes)
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends (Cunning Quotes)
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man (Cunning Quotes)
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you (Cunning Quotes)
In such situations, of course, people don’t nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that’s the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer’s delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn’t be moaning (Cunning Quotes)
These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime (Cunning Quotes)
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others (Cunning Quotes)
War’s a fearsome thing. They’ll be cunning that catches me at this wark again (Cunning Quotes)
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom (Cunning Quotes)
In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, the world says, or there is a speech abroad (Cunning Quotes)
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less (Cunning Quotes)
I have seldom known a man cunning with his brush who was not simple with his tongue; or, indeed, any skill in particular that was not allied to general stupidity (Cunning Quotes)