Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied.

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.