Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes

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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

Class, Two, Society

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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

Women, Opportunity, Missing

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Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Speak, Enough, Ill

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Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Hatred, Systematic, Cultivation

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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Art, Political, Politics

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Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Believe, Political, Benefits

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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

Clever, Men, Political

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If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Wish, Taught, Consent

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I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Country, Two, Insulting

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Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Men, Appreciate, Genius

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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Language, Humans

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What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Clever, Men, Political

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If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Understanding, Goes On, Explaining

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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

Art, Government, Names

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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Political, Politics, Firsts

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Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Fall, May, Failing

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What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Taught, Forgotten, Knows

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Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Dinner, Lasts, Hours

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The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Art, Men, Firsts

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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Love, Sweet, Coffee

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Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Government, Freedom Of The Press, Representatives

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A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Clever, Husband, Women

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Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means.
[Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Life, Mean, Years

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A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Family, Men, Married

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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

Men, Shadow, Reputation

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Born: February 2, 1754
Died: May 17, 1838
Occupation: Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
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