Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

(324 votes)   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
1754-1838, French Statesman

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(211 votes)   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
1754-1838, French Statesman

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(140 votes)   Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
1754-1838, French Statesman

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

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
1754-1838, French Statesman

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(120 votes)   Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
1754-1838, French Statesman

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(115 votes)   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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(107 votes)   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
1754-1838, French Statesman

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(99 votes)   Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
1754-1838, French Statesman

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(78 votes)   Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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(67 votes)   I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

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(67 votes)   If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

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(66 votes)   A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

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(61 votes)   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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(59 votes)   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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(49 votes)   Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

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