Quotes from Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.