Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

547 quotes · Politician, Author

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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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Benjamin Disraeli

Politician, Author

Sad

“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.”

Men Health Fruition

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Benjamin Disraeli

Politician, Author

Philosophical

“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.”

Events Advantage Prove

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Curious

“Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.”

Observation Acquire

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Inspired

“The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.”

Stronger Sorrow

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Adventurous

“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”

Age Suffering Time

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Confident

“I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.”

Government Order Passion

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Sad

“London is a modern Babylon.”

Modern London

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Inspired

“The unfortunate are always egotistical.”

Egotism Unfortunate

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Wise

“We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.”

Play Self Passion

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Love

“The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.”

Eye Moving Plato

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Spiritual

“If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”

Men Attitude Grief

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Love

“There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.”

Young Existence Flirting

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