My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIMan 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.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
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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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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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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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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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