A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
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In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.
Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.
There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".
All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.
If I do my job well, then God will smile on my offspring and on their offspring. I'm sure my father is seeing a blessing in me.
To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.
Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
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.
Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.
Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to
live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what
looks like cunning.
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
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