It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overleap them.
—Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich
Stability is not immobility.
—Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich
Topics: Security
Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
—Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich
Topics: Moderation
The men who make history have not time to write it.
—Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich
Topics: History, Historians
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