Quotes About Cunning

Nicia: God send him the plague! Timoteo: Why? Nicia: So he'll get it!

It is necessary', he writes, for a prince to learn 'how not to be good' (Ch. XV). Machiavelli's wording on this matter is extremely precise: a man who wants 'to profess goodness at all times' will inevitably fail because he is surrounded by many unscrupulous men. Hence, 'it is necessary for a prince who wishes to maintain himself to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge or not to use it according to necessity' (Ch. XV).

Os homens são tão simplórios e obedientes às necessidades imediatas que aquele que engana sempre encontrará quem se deixe enganar.

Pero un príncipe sabio evitará siempre valerse de unas y de otras y recurrirá a sus propias armas, prefiriendo perder con ellas a ganar con las ajenas.

el que engaña con arte halla siempre gente que se deje engañar.

MÄ…dry pan nie mo?e ani nie powinien dotrzymywa? wiary, je?eli takie dotrzymywanie przynosi mu szkodÄ™ i gdy znikn??y jego przyczyny, które spowodowaÅ'y jego przyrzeczenie. Zapewne gdyby wszyscy ludzie byli dobrzy, ten przepis nie byÅ'by dobry, lecz poniewa? sÄ… oni nikczemni i nie dotrzymywaliby tobie wiary, wiÄ™c ty tak?e nie jesteÅ› zobowiÄ…zany im jej dotrzymywa?.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say. And if sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

Denn die Menschen sind so einfältig und so gewöhnt, den herrschenden Verhältnissen nachzugeben, dass der, welcher betrügen will, immer Leute findet, welche sich betrügen lassen.

Tuzaklar? tan?mak için bir tilki, kurtlar? korkutmak için de aslan olmak gerekir.

Les hommes sont si naïfs, et ils obéissent tant aux nécessités présentes que celui qui trompe trouvera toujours quelqu'un qui se laissera tromper.

Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

One Must Be A Fox In Order To Recognize Traps, And A Lion To Frighten Off Wolves

Mumbai is the kind of place where you learn how to be street smart... unless you're way too overprotected.

I believe the only muscles you need in basketball are the ones in your brain.

A society convulsed by disorder and chaos, as Voegelin pointed out, elevates and even celebrates the morally degenerate, those who are cunning, manipulative, deceitful, and violent.

That was always the trouble with you," Steele murmured. "You're so damned smart. You observe everything.

You are a cunning devil, aren't you, Mikhail? But I think your cleverness may have gotten you into a bit of trouble." He watched her with hooded eyes. His teeth gleamed white in the firelight. "Did I happen to mention, Miss Whitney, that the last person impertinent enough to beat me at chess was thrown in the dungeon and tortured for thirty years?" "I believe that would have made you about two at the time," she teased, her eyes glued to the chessboard.

Captain Timothy Meaher, the boat's owner, was drinking with the rest of them, and he focused his cunning gray eyes on Russell. Meaher figured the foreign journalist might not understand the way folks did things here in America, so close to the old frontier. White men had claimed

The one benefit of maturity is discovering just how crafty you can be.

She merely desires to be taken at her own valuation and to be addressed universally as "Mother Teresa." Her success is not, therefore, a triumph of humility and simplicity. It is another chapter in a millennial story which stretches back to the superstitious childhood of our species, and which depends on the exploitation of the simple and the humble by the cunning and the single-minded.

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And melting heavens conspired his overthrow.

BARABAS: A reaching thought will search his deepest wits, And cast with cunning for the time to come; For evils are apt to happen every day.

You could never be sure how much of it was acting, for he was sly as the devil, and not above using his arts on those he loved.