« All Men Quotes · Charles Maurice de Talleyrand's Page
Men Quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
- Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
- War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
- 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 woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.
- Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
- A married man with a family will do anything for money.
- The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
- What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
More Men Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle