Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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