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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand [1754-1838] French

Rank: 101
Diplomat, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Bénévent, then prince de Talleyrand, was a laicized French bishop, politician, and diplomat.

Art, Freedom, Government, Great, Love

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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.	Love	101
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.	Great	102
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.	Art	103
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.		104
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.		105
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.		106
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.		107
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.	Freedom, Government	108
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.		109
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.		110
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.		111
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.		112
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.		113
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.		114
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.		115
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.		116
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.		117
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.		118
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.		119
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.		120

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