Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.
Stability is not immobility.
The men who make history have not time to write it.
Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.
In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.