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“I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.” quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand — Download Open image

“I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.”

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

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It is not an event; it is a piece of news.

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Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

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Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot…

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Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.

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If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

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An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.

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She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

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I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

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War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

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