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

- Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

What is necessary is never a risk.

- Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

- Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

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

- Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

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

- Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.

- Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

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

- Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

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

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 …

- Jean Francois Paul De Gondi