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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.


— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand


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


— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand


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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.


— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand


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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.


— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand


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


— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand


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


— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand


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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


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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


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War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.


— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand


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


— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand


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