Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
BENJAMIN DISRAELINext to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
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Success is the child of audacity.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
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A majority is always better than the best repartee.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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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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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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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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