Quote #65
Be helpful, even if it compromises you.
More from Jean Cocteau
- Find first, seek later.
- Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.
- Hasten slowly. Run faster than beauty.
- He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.
- One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.
- Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
- Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
- Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.