Charles-Maurice de Talley quotes
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
This is the beginning of the end.
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 clever man.
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.