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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

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

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

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.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

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

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

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.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.