24 Quotes by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

In a major matter no details are small.

There are no small steps in great affairs.

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

What is necessary is never a risk.

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.

It’s easier to fight one’s enemies than to get on with one’s friends.

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.

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.