“Accessibility on the part of rulers ends by inspiring love rather than respect, and love evaporates at first sign of trouble.”

—  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Reported in, Bernard, J. F., Talleyrand: A Biography. (1973), p. 592

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