We moralize among ruins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELISilence is the mother of truth.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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There is no education like adversity.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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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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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
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