Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz: contai...
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“Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.”
“Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.”
“It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.”
“Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.”
“Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.”
“She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.”
“A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.”
“Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.”
“A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.”
“There are no small steps in great affairs.”
Source: 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
“Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.”
“The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.”