Benjamin Disraeli - Life Quotes

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King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

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A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

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As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

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The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

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Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

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There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

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Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

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The fun of talk is to find what a man really thinks, and then contrast it with the enormous lies he has been telling all dinner, and, perhaps, all his life.

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As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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My objection to Liberalism is this—that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind—namely, politics—of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

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All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence.

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Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.

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Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

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Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

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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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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

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