Francois Rabelais Quotes

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Tactics are manipulative.

All warfare is based on deception.

I'm very good at manipulation.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

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

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation

I'm smarter than the average; I just act dumb. That's what gets people's attention; you act dumb, you get people's attention.

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art of maneuvering.

Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

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

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.