Best 20 quotes of Jean Francois Paul De Gondi on MyQuotes

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.

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.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

In a major matter no details are small.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

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.

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

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.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

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.