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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, Nothing, Always, Eager
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Unhappiness, Too, Creates, Sensibility
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
Discover, More, Necessary, Discern
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Art, Inevitable, Occurrence, Foresee
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
Fishing, Pleasure, Again, Good Friend
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Court, Noble, Assembly, Beggars
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
Shadow, Like, His, Proportions
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Clever, Last, Ever, Clever Man
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Go, Cease, Another, Explaining
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
I Am, Army, Lions, Sheep
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Always, Mistrust, Nearly, Impulses
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Freedom, Government, Press, Representative
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Love, Only, Contempt, Great Man
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Should, However, Methods, Rewarded
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Like, Lasts, Which, Dinner
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
Shadow, Like, Proportion, Gigantic
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
Woman, Shame, Sign, Blush
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Men, Left, Too, Serious
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Love, Black, Devil, Angel
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Thoughts, Given, His, Disguise
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