Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
OTTO VON BISMARCKBeware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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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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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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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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Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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