24 Quotes by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

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

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

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

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

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

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.