Benjamin Disraeli

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> The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

> Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

> Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Mine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that non-sense.

> Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

> But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

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

> The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

> The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done; the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

> "Frank and explicit" - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

> The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

> Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

> Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

> Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

> Great services are not cancelled by one act or by one single error.

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

> Ignorance never settles a question.

> My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

> Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologies for truth.

> Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

> The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

> The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

> There are three Kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

> What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

> When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

> How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

> To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

> Amusement to an observing mind is study.

> Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

> Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

> The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

> Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

> Duty cannot exist without faith.

> Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.

> A person's fate is their own temper.

>There is no education like adversity.

> Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

> A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

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