Geographical Expression Quotes by Klemens von Metternich

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Klemens von Metternich has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
• When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.
• The men who make history have not time to write it.
• The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.
• The obvious is always least understood.
• Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.
• Italy is a geographical expression.
• When Paris has a cold, all Europe sneezes.
• I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries…
• Error has never approached my spirit.
• The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts…
• Italy is only a geographical expression.

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