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.

When France sneezes, all of Europe catches cold.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

Stability is not immobility.

Error has never approached my spirit.

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

The obvious is always least understood.