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.
Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject. - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.
- Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce. - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered. - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know. - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.
Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool. - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.
Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred. - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter. - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
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