The men who make history have not time to write it.

The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

Italy is a geographical expression.

Stability is not immobility.

I came into the world either too early or too late at present, I am good for nothing.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas they overlap them.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.

Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.

The obvious is always least understood.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.