A Quote by Francis Bacon

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon

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Cunning Doth Hurt Men More Nothing Pass State Than Wise

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Francis Bacon
English - Philosopher
January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

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 horse than a cunning man for their children.

Roger Ascham

I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.

Benjamin Franklin

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Plutarch

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

Benjamin Franklin

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Nicolas Chamfort

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

Josh Billings

Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.

Jonathan Maberry

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

Alexander Pope

For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.

Edmund Spenser

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.