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• In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world
  as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad....
• It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Cunning...
• There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pa
  which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him....
• There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are
  but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man....
• Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• A prudent question is one-half wisdom. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
  -- Francis Bacon, English philosopher (1561-1626)...