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.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.