Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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