Top 52 Charles Maurice De Talleyrand Quotes
#1. 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.
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#3. Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
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#10. 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.
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#13. Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
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#17. 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.]
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#23. I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.
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#24. 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.
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#28. An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
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#31. She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
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#33. 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.
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#36. 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.
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#41. In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.
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#42. Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.
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#47. A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
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#51. 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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