Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Quotes

It’s one thing to be the greatest; it’s another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

Necessity does everything well.

Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

Necessity, thou mother of the world!

No use saying necessity is making a mistake.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

Without me there could be no everybody.

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

Wanting and needing are two different things.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

Little boats should keep near shore

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.

Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.

There is no risk involved.

One should not run on a new road.

In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

If you can't, then you must!