The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIRead no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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Silence is the mother of truth.
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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Never complain and never explain.
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There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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As for our majority… one is enough.
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Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
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