24 Quotes by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.