Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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About Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conser…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Benjamin DisraeliMan is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.