Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
OTTO VON BISMARCKAll treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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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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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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A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
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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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I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.
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