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.
What is necessary is never a risk. - Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
What is necessary is never a risk.
- Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages. - Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.
The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes. - Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand. - Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends. - Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else. - Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone. - Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.
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
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.
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
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 …
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