Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de. "Speech to the Chamber of Peers." 24 July 1821. Archives Parlementaires, vol. 32, Librairie Administrative de Paul Dupont, 1864, p. 154.
Cyprian was the leader of the Christian Church in Africa. His non-authoritarian style was a radical departure from then civil and religious organizational style. Jews had moved back and forth between Congregational and authoritarian religious organization before, Cyprian’s democratic approach was short lived as the Catholic Church structure evolved emulating, and contesting with, civil authoritarianism. Cyprian’s approach presaged the Christian Congregational development that became the basis of most early American Christian churches.
Although most people do not realize it, ideas cannot be copyrighted under present and traditional copyright law. The manifestation of the idea, the specific design, words, fonts, and layout can be copyrighted, but someone else can legally use and publish that idea with a different design and words.
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French clergyman and leading diplomat. After studying theology, he became Agent-General of the Clergy in 1780. Just before the French Revolution, he became Bishop of Autun. He worked at the highest levels of successive French governments, most commonly as foreign minister or in some other diplomatic capacity. His career spanned the regimes of Louis XVI, the years of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Louis XVIII, and Louis-Philippe. Those Talleyrand served often distrusted him but, like Napoleon, found him extremely useful. The name "Talleyrand" has become a byword for crafty, cynical diplomacy.
