Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Quotes

• Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Fear, Passion, Judgment

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

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  Stupid, Stupidity, Argument

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• The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Dupes, Distrust

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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.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Success, Men, Errors

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

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  Fighting, Enemy, Easier

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• What is necessary is never a risk.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Risk

  "Mémoires". Book by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, 1718.

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• 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.

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  Mean, Differences, Choices

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• In a major matter no details are small.

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  Details, Matter, Majors

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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.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Men, Evil, Criminals

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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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  Men, Two, Knowing

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

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Trust, Respect, Men

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

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  Mind, Resolve, Deliberate

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• 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.

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  Mean, Men, Looks

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• There are no small steps in great affairs.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Political, Small Steps, Campaigns

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

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Men, People, Dazzle

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

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  Men, Crime, Scruples

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

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  Trust, Character, Average

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

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  Assembly, Turns, Instantaneous

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

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  Trust, Men, Doe

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• 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.

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  Character, Men, Becoming

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• 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.

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  Way, Causes, Sincerity

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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.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Giving, Speech, Way

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

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Virtue, Persecution, Persons

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• A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Men, Never Trust, Never Trust Anyone

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• Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

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  Soul, Weakness, Weak

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