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“Revolution is a symptom of grave political disease, and, unfortunately, it is contagious.”
― Talleyrand
― Talleyrand
“It seems that after the age of eighty all contemporaries are friends.”
― Talleyrand
― Talleyrand
“The losses that befall me every day attach me the more to the people that I love.”
― Talleyrand
― Talleyrand
“At every epoch,’ he wrote, ‘there is some good to be done or some harm to hinder; that is why, if one loves his country, one can, and in my opinion one ought to, serve it under all the Governments that it adopts.”
― Talleyrand
― Talleyrand
“To obtain the admiration of women is the ambition of most men, and those who achieve it easily are apt to believe that their success is in some way a proof of their intelligence, forgetting that it is not always intellectual superiority that makes the strongest claim on feminine regard.”
― Talleyrand
― Talleyrand
“the greatest danger in times of crisis comes from the zeal of people who are inexperienced.”
― Talleyrand
― Talleyrand
