Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
OTTO VON BISMARCKLaws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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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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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Politics ruins the character.
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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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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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