The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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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The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Travel teaches toleration.
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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We moralize among ruins.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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