Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Quotes
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There are no small steps in great affairs.
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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.
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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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The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
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Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
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A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
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Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.
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Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.