Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandToo much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandThe reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandSociety is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand