Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Love of glory can only create a great hero contempt of glory creates a great man.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand