Jean Francois Paul de Gondi quotes
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“A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.”
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“Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.”
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“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.”
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“What is necessary is never a risk.”
-- Jean Francois Paul de GondiSource : "Mémoires". Book by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, 1718.
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“Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.”
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“The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.”
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“The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.”
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“Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.”
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“Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.”
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“If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.”
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“There are no small steps in great affairs.”
-- Jean Francois Paul de GondiSource : Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz (1817). “Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz: containing, the particulars of his own life, with the most secret transactions of the French court and the civil wars”, p.394
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“A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.”
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“In a major matter no details are small.”
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“Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.”
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“Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.”
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“Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.”
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