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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

Benjamin Disraeli
Peace, World, Capitalist
Benjamin Disraeli (2009). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1860-1864”

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Benjamin Disraeli
Community, May, Dignity
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5014, Delphi Classics

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Benjamin Disraeli
Nature, Men, Sometimes
Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.347, London : H. Colburn

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

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Art, Society, Politics
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.438

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

Benjamin Disraeli
Style, Posterity

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

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Mother, Debt, Owing
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

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Fear, Intelligent, Speech

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

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Powerful, Opportunity, Political
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3417, Delphi Classics

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

Benjamin Disraeli
Country, Political, Politics

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

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Errors, Sincerity, Earnest
Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Queen Victoria, November 4, 1868.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli
Events, Advantage, Prove
Benjamin Disraeli (1859). “Henrietta Temple a Love Story by Benjamin Disraeli”, p.65

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

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Men, Nonsense, Treaties
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4147, Delphi Classics

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Benjamin Disraeli
Political, Majority, Politics
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5018, Delphi Classics

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

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Funny, Marriage, Witty
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5019, Delphi Classics

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

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Democracies Have, Political, Historical
"Lothair". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 17, 1870.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

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Passion, Men, Imagination
'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 4, ch. 13

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli
Wisdom, Powerful, Intelligent
Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches”

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

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Law, Moral, Individual
Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Lothair”, p.214

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

Benjamin Disraeli
Men, Dining, Sitting

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

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Philosophy, Engineering, Hands

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

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Wisdom, Knowledge, Science
Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.267

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

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Clever, Political, Politics

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

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Spiritual, Truth, Men
Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.17

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

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Silence, Speech, Judgment
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5034, Delphi Classics

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

Benjamin Disraeli
People, Interesting, Amusing
Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3675, Delphi Classics