Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
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.
Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.
Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.
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.
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
A married man with a family will do anything for money.
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
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