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.

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.

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!'