More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.
  2. The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
  3. Amusement to an observing mind is study.
  4. All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
  5. Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
  6. When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
  7. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
  8. No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed…

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