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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

Benjamin Disraeli

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Benjamin Disraeli

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Benjamin Disraeli

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Benjamin Disraeli

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Benjamin Disraeli