Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes

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

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Country, Two, Insulting

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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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• Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Hatred, Systematic, Cultivation

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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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• 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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• 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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• Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Fall, May, Failing

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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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• 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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• Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Political, Politics, Firsts

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

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Clever, Husband, Women

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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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• 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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• The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Hate, Men, Too Much

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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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• Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
  [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Men, Speech, Parole

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• Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Hero, Men, Political

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