The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
More Quotes from Charles Maurice de Talleyrand:
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.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
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
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The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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