The obvious is always least understood.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.

When France sneezes, all of Europe catches cold.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.