Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
From Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
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.
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
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