Top 25 Jean Francois Paul De Gondi Quotes
#1. In a major matter no details are small.
#2. Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.
#3. Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.
#4. A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
#5. Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
#6. When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.
#7. Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.
#8. Weakness has many stages. There is a difference between feebleness by the impotency of the will, of the will to the resolution, of the resolution to the choice of means, of the choice of the means to the application.
#9. One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.
#10. It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
#11. The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
#12. A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
#13. Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.
#14. Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.
#15. If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.
#16. There are no small steps in great affairs.
#17. What is necessary is never a risk.
#18. Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
#19. A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.
#20. Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.
#21. Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
#22. Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
#23. Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
#24. The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.
#25. It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.
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