Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
OTTO VON BISMARCKA really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Great men have great dogs.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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