#cunning — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

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

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-03-31), The Rambler, No. 4

More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/22262…

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#cunning : skill in achieving goals by deceit

- French: malin

- German: gewitzt

- Italian: astuto

- Portuguese: astúcia

- Spanish: astuto

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A quotation from Mervyn Haisman

JAMIE: Have you thought up some clever plan, Doctor?
THE DOCTOR: Yes, Jamie, I believe I have.
JAMIE: What are you going to do?
THE DOCTOR: Bung a rock at it.

Mervyn Haisman (1928-2010) British screenwriter
Doctor Who (1963), 05×02 “The Abominable Snowmen,” Part 4 (1967-10-21) [with Henry Lincoln]

More about this quote: wist.info/haisman-mervyn/4611/

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#cunning : wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity

- French: malin

- German: gewitzt

- Italian: astuto

- Portuguese: astúcia

- Spanish: astuto

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🎩✨ Ah yes, the long con of #LLMs, a mere extension of Pascal's #cunning plan to trick us all with mechanical marvels since 1623. Who needs progress when we can just blame the badgers? 🦡🔮
https://tomrenner.com/posts/400-year-confidence-trick/ #LongCon #Pascal #Badgers #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

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A quotation from Ben Franklin

What knowing Judgment, or what piercing Eye,
Can Man’s mysterious Maze of Falshood try?
Intriguing Man, of a suspicious Mind,
Man only knows the Cunning of his Kind;
With equal Wit can counter-work his Foes,
And Art with Art, and Fraud with Fraud oppose.
Then heed ye Fair, e’er you their Cunning prove,
And think of Treach’ry, while they talk of Love.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1742 ed.)

More info about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/79…

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#cunning : wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity

- French: malin

- German: gewitzt

- Italian: astuto

- Portuguese: astúcia

- Spanish: astuto

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A quotation from Euripides

AGAMEMNON:                         But women?
   Women overpower men?
HECUBA:                                There is power
   in numbers, and cunning makes us strong.
 
ἈΓΑΜΈΜΝΩΝ: καὶ πῶς γυναιξὶν ἀρσένων ἔσται κράτος;
ἙΚΆΒΗ: δεινὸν τὸ πλῆθος σὺν δόλῳ τε δύσμαχον.

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 883ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/78722/

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A quotation from Ben Franklin

Tricks and Treachery are the Practice of Fools, that have not Wit enough to be honest.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1740 ed.)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/77…

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#elites #exceptionalists #wannabes #english #tourists Do I feel sorry for them. ? Not in the slightest. They've destroyed a way of life that was never theirs. #cunning #stunts #bankofmom&dad
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jul/01/digital-nomad-dream-turns-sour

#reform #fascist #israel #palestine #ukpol #refugeeswelcome FYI . Dem bastards are within the city walls. Stun his lab? Better turned his 12 bore on himself #cunning #stunt
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/british-pro-israel-mp-suggests-palestine-action-activists-should-expect-be-shot

Very #cunning, #Cretans https://greekreporter.com/2025/06/12/ancient-greeks-crete-cheat-romans-wine/

#cunning : wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity

- French: malin

- German: gewitzt

- Italian: astuto

- Portuguese: astúcia

- Spanish: astuto

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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

The surest method of being deceived is to believe that one is cleverer than others.
 
[Le vrai moyen d’être trompé, c’est de se croire plus fin que les autres]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶127 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶127]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

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Hard poem, but reflects how I feel these days…

Acid - #MaryOliver

In Jakarta,

among the venders

of #flowers and soft drinks,

I saw a child
with a hideous mouth,

#begging,

and I knew the #wound was made

for a way to stay alive.

What I gave him

wouldn’t keep a dog alive.

What he gave me

from the brown coin

of his sweating face

was a look of #cunning.

I carry it

like a bead of acid

to remember how,

once in a while,

you can creep out of your own life

and become someone else—

an #explosion

in that nest of wires

we call the #imagination.

I will never see him

again, I suppose.

But what of this rag,

this shadow

flung like a boy’s body

into the walls

of my mind, bleeding

their sour taste—

#insult and #anger,

the great movers?

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#cunning : wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity

- French: malin

- German: gewitzt

- Italian: astuto

- Portuguese: astúcia

- Spanish: astuto

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Leading the invaders astray.

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Shion starts off the Demon King Carnival. But will everything proceed as he has envisioned it?

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Dragon's Clever Hoard

In the depths of a volcanic cavern hides a dragon's lair, filled to be brim with treasure and their cunningly disguised hatchlings

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I'm not sure what made me just remember this story from my late mother's aunt during the war, 1stWW I think...
She met her later husband not long before he was sent overseas. They came up with a cunning plan for sharing his location with a postcard and a map of the world which they both had a copy of.
The map had a tiny pin hole pushed through it and the card to tell her his location, she matched her map up with the received card! Clever huh 😏
#cunning #smart #family #history #war

#cunning : wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity

- French: malin

- German: gewitzt

- Italian: astuto

- Portuguese: astúcia

- Spanish: astuto

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