Anne Louise Germaine de Staël Quote

Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of managing the affairs of a nation.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of...

Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of...

Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of...

Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of...