Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
From Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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.
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
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