A Quote by Luc de Clapiers

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

Luc de Clapiers

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Luc de Clapiers
French - Writer
August 6, 1715 - May 28, 1747

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

Jane Austen

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

The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not

Gorgias

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

Luc de Clapiers

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.

Luc de Clapiers

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Francis Bacon

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

Norm MacDonald

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

T. S. Eliot

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Samuel Johnson

A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.

Ninon de L'Enclos

A man is not merely a man but a man among men, in a world of men. Being good at being a man has more to do with a man’s ability to succeed with men and within groups of men than it does with a man’s relationship to any woman or any group of women. When someone tells a man to be a man, they are telling him to be more like other men, more like the majority of men, and ideally more like the men who other men hold in high regard.

Jack Donovan

No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?

Ethel Smyth

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